¿Habla Colbertian?

A group of brainiacs at Northwestern are studying something or other, and they created a new language called Colbertian based on words coined by Stephen Colbert!

In a new study on the website of the journal Cognitive Science, the researchers explain that they created the language in order to test whether knowing multiple tongues makes it easier to learn another one. It does, they concluded, just like knowing more than one real languages helps.

“We found that people who learned both English and Spanish at an early age and continued to speak them, better retained the words in Colbertian,” said James Bartolotti, a Northwestern Ph.D. candidate and co-author of the study.

Neat! You can read more about the study here and learn to speak Colbertian here.