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!

🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/09/01/podcast-episode-17/

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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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It’s Wilhelm von Humboldt’s (1767-1835) 256th birthday today! 🥳

Can’t think of a better way to celebrate than to (re-)listen to episodes 3 and 4 of our podcats:

On language classification: https://hiphilangsci.net/2020/02/29/podcast-episode-3/

Interview with Jürgen Trabant: https://hiphilangsci.net/2020/03/31/podcast-episode-4/

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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.

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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.

🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2022/01/01/podcast-episode-21/

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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 science, have a look at this post by Martin Konvička:

👉https://hiphilangsci.net/2022/03/21/colorless-green-ideas-and-the-others/

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Bedřich Hrozný (1879-1952) would have turned 144 today. Všechno nejlepší! 🥳

Eat bread and drink water to celebrate!

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Otto Behaghel (1854-1936) would have turned 169 today! 🎉

"The highest law states that elements that belong close together intellectually will also be placed close together."

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Victoria Lady Welby would have celebrated her 186th birthday today! 🎂

To celebrate, we suggest to listen to episode 18 of our podcast with H. Walter Schmitz on her life and work and to read Els Elffers’ paper on our blog on the Dutch significs movement.

🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/10/01/podcast-episode-18-2/

📰 https://hiphilangsci.net/2020/09/14/significs-and-jacques-van-ginneken/

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It’s Ludwig Wittgenstein’s 134th birthday today! 🥳

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

Luckily we *can* speak about the article on our blog discussing some aspects of Wittgenstein’s work:

1) Maïa Ponsonnet: https://hiphilangsci.net/2013/09/18/no-beetle-wittgensteins-grammatical-illusions-and-dalabon-emotion-metaphors/

2) Jean-Michel Fortis: https://hiphilangsci.net/2015/10/13/family-resemblance-and-semantics-the-vagaries-of-a-not-so-new-concept/

3) Jon Orman: https://hiphilangsci.net/2018/04/12/theory/

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א פריילעכן געבורצטאג 🥳

"A shprakh iz a dyalekt mit an armey un flot"
'A language is a dialect with an army and navy'

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Exactly 10 years ago #OTD, we published our very first blog post and started altering the history of the history of linguistics! 🤩

Have a look at the texts (still worth reading!) we prepared for our readers a decade ago:

📰 https://hiphilangsci.net/2013/04/17/program-april-july/

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#OTD Nikolai S. Trubetzkoy (1890-1938) would have turned 133! 🎉

Feel free to celebrate by (re-)listening to episode 15 of our podcast to learn more about Trubetzkoy’s phonological research as well as the broader context of the Prague Linguistic Circle.

🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/06/01/podcast-episode-15/

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Sto lat, dear Bronisław!🥳

Have a (re-)listen to episode 19 of our podcast to hear more about Malinowski's (1884-1942) work, the study of meaning, and British linguistics in the first half of the 20th century.

🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/11/01/podcast-episode-19/

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Happy birthday, dear Georg (1840-1893)! 🥳

"To say that an idea is innate is to say that the idea is unexplainable."

If you’re interested in reading more, Gabelentz’ Die Sprachwissenschaft ([2016] 1891) is available here (@langscipress):

👉 https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/97

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It’s Friedrich Schlegel’s (1772-1929) 251st birthday today! 🥳

A great way to celebrate might be to (re-)listen to the very first episode of our podcast!

"[The] resemblance [is not] a casual circumstance easily accounted for by the intermixture of the languages; it is an essential element clearly indicating a community of origin."

🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2019/12/31/podcast-episode-1/

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#OTD 86 years ago, Annegret Bollée (1937-2021) was born 🎉 Classicist as well as a pioneering scholar of (German) creolistics. Expert on the French-based creoles of the Indian Ocean such as Seychellois Creole and Réunion Creole.

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