Friday, June 22, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: June 22

Postage stamp commemorating
150 Years of the Slovak Language
June 22

1767: Wilhelm Humboldt is born in Potsdam, Prussia.

1902: Gottlob Frege replies to Bertrand Russell’s letter of June 16.

1993: A Slovakian stamp commemorates “150 Years of the Slovak Language”.

1994: At the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Humor Studies in Ithaca, New York, the first ever symposium on “the linguistics of humor” takes place.

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For further study,
A.J. Ayer on Frege and Russell:

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