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...What mo' could you ask?") He studied classics and comparative philology at Manchester and Cambridge Universities and started his academic career as a classicist. (He still maintains that classics and mathematics provide the best education one can get.) In fact, what is most irresistible about his brand of linguistics is that it depends on a broad knowledge of individual languages, history, and literature despite its rigorous use of a statistics and mathematics. "The linguist must begin by knowing languages as well as knowing about languages," Whatmough says. "When he can handle at least some with confidence, he may proceed...
...five daily newspapers, from the Toledo Blade to the Detroit News. The plot is Les Misérables, "adapted to a sixth-grader's interest," and the grammar is passably taxing. Cosette : "Je voudrais alter voir cette cathedrale, père!" Valjean: "Nous irons demain." Admittedly no linguist, Mrs. Kincaid checks each strip with a retired French professor, but so far she has not failed...
...four scientists are biologists George L. Clarke '27 and Paul Levine; astronomer Edward Lilley; and mathematical linguist Anthony G. Oettinger...
...after six years as Little Lorin, the boy won der. Adolescence- its fuzzy cheeks and squeaky voice- had done him in -"I lost my market value as soon as I ceased to be a monstrosity." Sobering up in Pitts burgh, he studied hard, learned the vio lin, became a linguist and left for Europe -at 22. a forgotten celebrity...
...godfathers of Thayer Academy's Institute of Asian Studies are energetic Headmaster Gordon O. Thayer* 52, and Henry Courtenay Fenn, 68, a renowned linguist who retires this month as director of Yale's prestigious Institute of Far Eastern Languages. Gordon Thayer's incentive to teach Chinese came from his language problems in another important part of the world. Eastern Europe. Lecturing (with the help of an interpreter) through a cultural exchange program two years ago, Thayer realized how little Americans know of Eastern European language and culture-and how much less they must know about Asia. Back...