Tuesday, April 30, 2013

The Linguist’s Calendar: April 30

Norbert Wiener


April 30 

1943: Otto Jespersen, Danish linguist and Anglicist, and inventor of the artificial language Novial, passes away.

1947: In a reply to Warren Weaver’s letter of March 4, Norbert Wiener replies that he is skeptical about the possibilities of machine translation.

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