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| René Descartes |
November 20
1629: In a letter to Pierre Mersenne, René Descartes describes his idea of assigning a number code to all concepts. This would allow translation where two persons don’t share a common language. The writer’s message, converted into numbers, would allow the receiver to simply substitute for the number the lexical item in his own language.
1889: Ferdinand de Saussure takes a sabbatical from Sorbonne, and is replaced by Antoine Meillet.
1916: Birth of Charles Osgood, inventor of semantic differential technique.
1975: The International Circle of Korean Linguistics is founded.
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