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| Alfred Kroeber, father of Ursula K. LeGuin |
June 20
1913: Commenting on their own attempts to simplify John Wesley Powell’s classification of American Indian languages, Alfred Kroeber writes to Edward Sapir that “we have finally got Powell’s old fifty-eight families on the run, and the farther we can drive them into a heap, the more fun and profit”
1938: Andorra decides that official advertising must be in Catalan.
1950: In Pravda, Stalin publishes a piece which dismisses pretty much everything that Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr—until then the guru of Soviet linguistics—had ever said. As the column was graphically indistinguishable from other entries on the same page, it took an attentive reader to realize that what was claimed was the new Truth.
1961: Samuel Kirk and James McCarthy publish an experimental edition of the “Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities”, used in diagnosing learning disabilities.
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