TSCs have been a quite big language community in the UK since the early 1950s.
Paleoanthropologists once considered making tools to be one of the defining characteristics of being human--along with a big brain, language, and upright walking.
"He said, 'You know, Mira, you gotta do a big English-language picture.' I said, 'Hello, Scott?
I'm doing a three-month internship on the Indian Express which is quite a big English-language newspaper.
You'll be driving along a Miami freeway in 2004, listening to Radio Mambí — that's a big Spanish-language talk station — and suddenly you'll be in Cuba, 1961.
Cendant's share price collapsed in 1998 after the fraud was first uncovered, wiping $14 billion from the company's market value.America's Securities and Exchange Commission charged Ricardo Salinas Pliego, one of Mexico's richest men, with fraud after a lengthy probe into dealings between TV Azteca, a big Spanish-language TV company of which he is chairman, and a private company that he owns.
So if Mr Saiz had run his language-premium study against a parallel-universe America, in which the last half-century had been a golden age of language-learning, he might have found a bigger foreign-language bonus (and a bigger GDP pie to divide) in that more open and export-oriented fantasy America.
Luxembourg has two big languages (French and German, nearly all Luxembourgers speak both) and a local Germanic language, Luxembourgish.
With big languages like Hindi, Bengali, and Arabic, the prize has had few relations.
