Thursday, August 2, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: August 2

Raymond de Saussure

Raymond de Saussure





August  2
 

1884: In The Critic, the word thon is proposed as a gender-neutral pronoun to replace the he and she of English.
 
1894: The Saussures are blessed with a boy child. The son, named Raymond, later becomes a renowned psychoanalyst.
 
1972: Creation of the Tahitian Academy, whose aim it is to “safeguard and enrich the Tahitian language”.

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