Wednesday, March 6, 2013

The Linguist’s Calendar: March 6

http://researchimpact.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/rockefeller-foundation.png?w=655March 6  

1947: Andrew Booth meets Warren Weaver again, and the Rockefeller Foundation provisionally agrees to fund machine translation research.

1995: The Estonian parliament agrees to designate all languages other than Estonian as “foreign languages.” A third of all Estonian residents are insolent enough to have acquired one of these as their mother tongue.

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