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| Antoine Meillet |
July 22
Spooner’s Day is said to be celebrated on this day, I’m just not sure by whom. In any case, it commemorates the birth of Reverend William Archibald Spooner, the king of slips-of-the-tongue.
1922: Nikolai Trubetzkoy writes a letter to Antoine Meillet about palatalization in proto-Slavic.
1933: The French-Armenian inventor Georges Artsrouni patents a translation machine.
1960: Mouton offers to publish Chomsky’s The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory, but the negotiations come to nothing.
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