#linguisticbirthdays — Public Fediverse posts
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Happy World Linguistics Day 🎉
Not Saussure how to celebrate? Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast will give your plans some structure…
🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/02/01/podcast-episode-12/
🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/01/podcast-episode-13/
#LinguisticBirthdays #LinguisticQuotes #Histlx #WorldLinguisticsDay
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Alles Gute, lieber Johann! 🎂
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Franz Boas would have turned 167 #OTD 🥳
Why not celebrate this anniversary by (re-)listening to episode 28 of our podcast, focusing on early 20th-century American linguistics, Franz Boas, and his circle of students!
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Anna Morpurgo Davies (1937-2014), an Indo-Europeanist, classicist, and historian of linguistics, would have turned 88 #OTD
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticQuotes
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Všechno nejlepší, dear Bedřich/Friedrich!
To mark today’s 146th birthday of Bedřich Hrozný (1879–1952), consider eating a portion of bread, followed later by a glass of water 🥳
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#OTD 167 years ago, Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) was born 🥳
Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast are considered by some to be the perfect way to celebrate this occasion.
12: https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/02/01/podcast-episode-12/
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Happy 128th birthday, dear Roman! 🥳
"If we wanted to characterise briefly the kind of thinking currently governing science in its most varied manifestations, we could not find a more fitting expression than structuralism."
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Happy 178th birthday, dear Hermann! 🥳
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Johann Martin Schleyer (1831-1912), the inventor of Volapük, would have turned 193 #OTD and we say: "Yelami läbik!" 🥳
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Tillykke med fødselsdagen, dear Otto (1860-1943)! 🥳
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Franz Boas (1858-1942) would have turned 166 today! 🥳
Just as any other festive occasion, this one can also be perfectly celebrated by listening to one of the episodes of our podcast - for example episode no. 28!
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Anna Morpurgo Davies (1937-2014), the great historian of linguistics, would have turned 87 today! 🥳
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #LinguisticQuotes #WomenInLinguistics
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It’s Karl Bühler’s (1879-1963) 145th birthday today!
We say "Happy Birthday!" and point to episode 21 of our podcast in order to celebrate this special day 👇
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Today is H. Steinthal’s 201st birthday! 🥳
If you’re interested in the details of his Völkerpsychologie or “psychology of peoples”, the sixth episode of our podcast is just the thing you’re looking for!
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Bedřich Hrozný (1879-1952) would have turned 145 #OTD!
Feel free to eat some bread and drink some water to celebrate! 🍞🥤🥳
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Otto Behaghel (1854-1936) would have turned 170 today and we say: alles Gute, dear Otto! 🎉
"The highest law states that elements that belong close together intellectually will also be placed close together."
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Happy birthday, Lady Welby! 🥳
For everyone interested in the work of Victoria, Lady Welby (1837-1912) on meaning and in particular on significs, episode 18 of our podcast is a great place to start!
🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/10/01/podcast-episode-18-2/
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Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) would have turned 127 #OTD! 🎂
Can there be a better way to celebrate than to listen to our podcast on the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and watch Penny Lee present her research into Whorf’s personal diaries?
🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2023/04/01/podcast-episode-31/
📺 https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/02/07/the-facts-of-whorfs-hopi-research/
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Gail Jefferson (1938-2008) would have turned 86 #OTD 🎉
If you’re interested in the role she played in the history of conversation analysis it, our episode 37 has you covered!
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It’s not every day that Hermann Osthoff (1847-1909) celebrates his 177th birthday! 🥳
If you’d like to hear more about his work and the work of his fellow Neogrammarians, there’s (almost) no better thing to do than to listen to episode 9 of our podcast!
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С днем рождения! 🎉
#OTD, Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890-1938) would have turned 134. A great way to celebrate this occasion is to (re-)listen to episode 15 of our podcast, where we discuss Trubetzkoy’s work in the context of the Prague Linguistic Circle.
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Bronisław Malinowski (1884-1942) was born #OTD 140 years ago. Sto lat! 🥳
To celebrate, let’s (re-)listen to episode 19 of our podcast on Malinowski, Firth, and the role of meaning in British linguistics in the first half of the twentieth century.
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August Schleicher (1821-1868) would have turned 203 #OTD 🎉
Singing "happy birthday" in Proto-Indo-European and/or (re-)listening to episodes 5 and 6 of our podcast are perfect ways to celebrate!
Ep. 5: Schleicher and materialism
🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2020/04/29/podcast-episode-5/Ep. 6: Schleicher and morphology
🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2020/05/31/podcast-episode-6/ -
William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894) would have celebrated his 197th birthday today! 🥳
To honour this occasion, let’s (re-)listen to episode 8 of our podcast, in which James McElvenny discusses Whitney’s conception of language as a “human institution” and its intellectual background.
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Edward Sapir (1884-1939) would have turned 140 years #OTD! 🥳
Listen to episodes 31 and 33 of our podcast to celebrate!
🎙️ 31: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
https://hiphilangsci.net/2023/04/01/podcast-episode-31/🎙️ 33: Sapir and Bloomfield on formalism
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Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) would have turned 239 today 🥳
A great way to celebrate this anniversary is to (re-)listen to the second episode of our podcast in which we look at the emergence of comparative-historical grammar and the work of Jacob Grimm.
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#OTD 164 years ago, Ludwik Zamenhof (1859-1917) was born: Feliĉan naskiĝtagon! 🥳
If you’re in Berlin, take a sit on one of the benches at Esperantoplatz to celebrate! 💚
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#OTD Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) would have turned 166! 🥳
A great way to celebrate his birthday is to (re-) listen to episodes 12 (about the idea of language as a system) and 13 (interview with John Joseph about Ferdinand de Saussure) of our podcast.
Ep. 12: https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/02/01/podcast-episode-12/
Ep. 13: https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/01/podcast-episode-13/
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Antoine Meillet (1866-1936) would have turned 157 #OTD!
Joyeux anniversaire 🥳
"...each language forms a system where everything hangs together..."
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Henry Sweet (1845-1912) would have turned 178 #OTD 🥳
To celebrate, we recommend an older blog post by Angela Senis (Bourdeaux) on the role Henry Sweet played for John Rupert Firth as well as episode no. 14 of our podcast on the history of phonetics in the 19th century!
📖 https://hiphilangsci.net/2019/02/21/sweet-firth/
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#OTD Berthold Delbrück (1842-1922) would have turned 181 🥳
📖 https://archive.org/details/introductiontos02delbgoog/page/n116/mode/2up?view=theater
#LinguisticQuotes #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays #Motivational #Inspirational #Quotes
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It’s Philipp Wegener’s (1848-1916) 175th birthday today! 🥳
To celebrate, go influence someone or let yourself be influenced by episode 17 of our podcast and learn more about Wegener’s work and the beginnings of functionalism!
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#OTD Johann Martin Schleyer (1831-1912), the inventor of Volapük, would have turned 192. To celebrate this anniversary, we say: "yelami läbik!" and post one of the reasons to choose Volapük and reject Esperanto (for the full text, see link).
https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Ueber_die_Pfuscher-Sprache_des_Pseudo-Esperanto
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Tillykke med dagen! 🥳
It’s Otto Jespersen’s (1860-1943) 163th birthday today!
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#OTD 86 years ago, Anna Morpurgo Davies (1937-2014) was born 🥳 Indo-Europeanist, classicist, historian of linguistics, and the president of both the Henry Sweet Society and the Philological Society. She contributed to the decipherment of the Luwian hieroglyphs.
#LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticQuotes
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It’s the 144th birthday of Karl Bühler (1879-1963) today! 🥳
To celebrate, we recommend (re-)listening to episode 21 of our podcast focusing on Karl Bühler’s Organon model of communication and its influence on the Prague Circle.
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#OTD Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) would have turned 132! 🥳
Elatically karulise your pirots to celebrate!
If you're interested to read more about pirots, colourless green ideas or vertebral silence, have a look at this post by Martin Konvička (@TeapotLinguist):
👉https://hiphilangsci.net/2022/03/21/colorless-green-ideas-and-the-others/
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#OTD Heymann Steinthal (1823-1899) would have turned 200 🥳
Let’s celebrate by remembering the relevance of the history of linguistics to the present and future.
"In short: if we want to make a thorough break with the old grammar, we have to investigate how it developed among the Greeks. And so the history of the past of grammar, with regard to its future, has a full present interest."
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Inspiration 💙
Lucien Tesnière (1893-1954) would have turned 130 #OTD
#LinguisticQuotes #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #Motivational #Inspirational #quotes
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#OTD 1821: #JensAndreasFriis, one of the founding fathers of #Saami linguistics, lecturer and later professor at the University of Kristiania (Oslo) was born. He established an orthography of North Saami which was used in the first complete Bible translation and, until 2004 (!), in the Christian journal "Nuorttanaste". #LinguisticBirthdays