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From: Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Otto Jespersen died (30-4-1943)
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 10:56:04 +0200
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On 2024-04-30 09:23:32 +0000, Ross Clark said:

> If I may quote from my 2018 observance of his birthday:

No one will care in the slightest about this, but Jesperson died on the 
day on which my in-laws were married.
> 
> July 16 - Otto Jespersen (1860)
> I bought his "Growth and Structure of the English Language" (1905)
> from the same guy who sold me Sapir's Language (1921), both great books
> still in print decades after their first appearance. Late in life I 
> acquired his seven-volume historical grammar of Modern English. But his 
> interests ranged very widely; the titles "Language: Its Nature, 
> Development and Origin" and "Mankind, Nation and Individual from a 
> Linguistic Point of View" give some idea. Also an enthusiast for 
> international auxiliary languages (Ido, Novial).
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Jespersen
> 
> Crystal thinks Jespersen was the first linguist to publish a full 
> autobiography (A Linguist's Life, 1938), and that it is a very good 
> read. I think I have read it, and I think I agree. Trouble is, I 
> sometimes get him confused with a near-contemporary Danish linguist, 
> Holger Pedersen (1867-1953), perhaps most famous for coining the name 
> "Nostratic".
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger_Pedersen_(linguist)


-- 
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly 
in England until 1987.