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Poto and Cabengo (names given, respectively, by Grace and Virginia Kennedy to themselves) are American identical twins who used an invented language until the age of about eight. The girls were apparently of normal intelligence.
Mar 25, 1980 · Identical young twin girls in the USA have invented their own shared language. Scientists are wanting to study the language but social workers are trying to get the twins to leave their secret language world and enter the mainstream.
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- Documentary
- Jean-Pierre Gorin
- 1980-03-25
Poto and Cabengo. Grace and Virginia are young San Diego twins who speak unlike anyone else. With little exposure to the outside world, the two girls have created a private form of communication that’s an amalgam of the distinctive English dialects they hear at home.
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Frequent Godard-collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin captures moments from the lives of twin sisters Grace and Virginia Kennedy, who have created their own language and way of communicating in Poto and Cabengo. The name of the film is derived from this invented language; Poto and Cabengo were the names the girls had assigned each other.
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- J.P. Gorin, ZDF
- Jean-Pierre Gorin
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Jul 16, 2015 · Poto and Cabengo. By Richard Brody. July 16, 2015. In 1978, the French director Jean-Pierre Gorin, a newcomer to the United States, installed himself near San Diego to film this...
The case of two twin, ten-year-old girls who speak to each other in their own language is documented. It is thought that since the twins grew up exposed to family members who spoke different languages and traveled to several countries during their childhood, that this may have caused them to...
