Wednesday, January 23, 2013

The Linguist's Calendar: January 23

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January 23  

1948: Swedish gets a new word as Prof. Ture Johannisson proposes in Svenska Dagbladet that the shorter ‘plast" be used instead of the English loan "plastic."
 
1998: The German government recognizes four official minority languages: Danish, Frisian, Sorbian, and Romani.
 
1998: After having been presented with strong linguistic evidence, Ted Kaczynski confesses to being the infamous Unabomber terrorist.

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