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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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С днем рождения, dear Roman (1896-1982) 🥳
"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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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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#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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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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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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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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Today is Max Weinreich’s (1894-1969) 130th birthday 🥳
!א פריילעכן געבורצטאג
To celebrate, think about all the dialects without an army and navy.
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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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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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#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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Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) would have turned 127 #OTD. To celebrate, consider (re-)listening to episodes 21 and 24 of our podcast:
Ep. 21 (On Karl Bühler and the Prague Circle): https://hiphilangsci.net/2022/01/01/podcast-episode-21/
Ep. 24 (On the Copenhagen Circle): https://hiphilangsci.net/2022/04/01/podcast-episode-24/
"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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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