Sunday, July 15, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: July 15

Kazakh President
Nursultan Narzarbayev
July 15
 
1949: Warren Weaver issues a memorandum in 200 copies on the progress in machine translation made by Andrew Booth. This is the first time that the possibilities of machine translation reach anyone outside the innermost circles of this pioneer project.

1997: President Nazarbayev signs the new Kazakh language legislation, according to which Russian is not an official language of the republic, but that it nevertheless may be used as such (!).

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