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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#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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#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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Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) would have turned 136 #OTD 🎉

We recommend making some celebratory noises with your larynx, tongue, and lips and perhaps eating an apple!

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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 Karl Brugmann’s (1849-1919) 174th birthday today! 🥳

"Every sound change, inasmuch as it occurs mechanically, takes place according to laws that admit no exception."

Karl Brugmann, Herrmann Osthoff, and their role in the Neogrammarian school are discussed in episode 9 of our podcast!

🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2020/10/01/podcast-episode-9/

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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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Alles Gute, lieber August (1821-1868)! 🥳

Episodes 5 and 6 of our podcast are perfect to celebrate August Schleicher’s 202nd birthday and learn something about Schleicher’s morphology and materialism:

No. 5: https://hiphilangsci.net/2020/04/29/podcast-episode-5/

No. 6: https://hiphilangsci.net/2020/05/31/podcast-episode-6/

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Zorionak zuri, lieber Hugo! 🥳

Hugo Schuchardt's (1842-1927) would have turned 181 today. To celebrate both his birthday and his claim that "there are no completely unmixed languages", episode 10 of our podcast is the natural choice!

🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2020/11/01/podcast-episode-10-2/

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It’s Edward Sapir’s (1884-1939) 139th birthday today! 🎂

To celebrate, have a look at these two older blog posts about his work:

1) Jean-Michel Fortis on aesthetics and form in Sapir’s work
https://hiphilangsci.net/2014/10/15/sapirs-form-feeling-and-its-aesthetic-background/

2) Michael Silverstein on exceptionlessness in (not only) Sapir’s work
https://hiphilangsci.net/2014/11/26/in-praise-of-exceptionless-linguistics-among-the-human-sciences-at-bloomfield-and-sapirs-chicago/

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