Thursday, July 19, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: July 19

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The Rosetta Stone

July 19

1799: The Rosetta Stone, an essential key to the decipherment of the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, is discovered near the Nile.
 
1973: In the New York Review of Books, Noam Chomsky provides a reply to the criticism delivered a couple of months earlier by George Lakoff.

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