October 16
1913: George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, with a phonetician as one of the leading characters, is premiered in Vienna. Only the year later does it hit a London stage.
1936: A 14-year old Michael Ventris gets to hear about Linear B for the first time.
1997: Release of Steven Pinker’s How the Mind Works.
2000: The band Jega (actually a pseudonym for Dylan Nathan), which plays instrumental electronic music, releases the album Geometry, which is remarkable for containing a song called "Syntax Tree."
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Jega's "Syntax Tree":
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