| Erwin Reifler |
January 10
1846: August “Wave Theory” Schleicher defends his PhD thesis in Bonn.
1950: American sinologist Erwin Reifler produces a 55-page study on machine translation, in which he for the first time formulates the concepts of pre- and post-editing.
1963: In Oregon, a Mr Wolverton Orton dies, taking the Takelma language with him into the grave. A remarkable aspect of his language was the grammaticalization of the word for ‘vagina’ into a preposition.
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