IN THE SPRING I HAD THE PLEASURE OF RECONNECTING W ITH someone I last saw in 2016, when I spent a week in Reykjavík to attend the Iceland Writers Retreat and give a talk at the University of Iceland. That trip came at the. During a presentation at Scandinavia House, Reid spoke about Iceland’s place atop the rankings of countries closing the gap in equality, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report. It was a fascinating talk, but it was her remark about Iceland’s creation of words for the national lexicon, including “ (a mixture of ‘number’ and ‘prophetess’) for computer, (‘thief of peace’) for a pager, and (‘crawling dragon’) for an armored tank,” that brought to mind a number of topics explored in this issue.
EDITOR’S Note
Jun 14, 2023
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