Saturday, September 1, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: September 1

Randy LaPolla
September 1 

1904: Helen Keller graduates cum laude from Radcliffe College at age 24. She is, so far as I know, the first tactile signer to do so. Her reading was done through Braille script, and the lectures were spelled into her hand by her assistant. After graduation, Keller became a well-known socialist agitator.

2000: Randy LaPolla gets a grant to compile a dictionary of the Chinese language Rawang.

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