Word: linguistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Derfner, who met with Wolff and Knowles, saidhe was not as pleased with their responses, whichhe said were vague save for Wolff's comment that adistinguished visiting linguist would be coming toHarvard next fall...
...growing number of other earthlings. Not only is Klingon a real language, sort of, it is the fastest growing language in the universe (if you consider that it started with a base line of zero speakers in the mid-1980s). It was invented by a linguist named Marc Okrand, whose business is producing closed captions for television. He happened to be in the Paramount cafeteria having lunch with a friend just when the producers of the film Star Trek II were desperately looking for someone with a Ph.D. to do a bit of Vulcan dialogue. Okrand offered his services...
Harvard colleagues laud Russell, who was trained at the University of London, as an outstanding linguist and talented teacher...
...final speaker, MIT linguist Noam Chomsky,criticized the U.S. government by quoting DanielP. Moynihan, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. atthe time of the 1975 invasion of East Timor...
...recent study by M.I.T. linguist Ken Hale estimates that 3,000 of the world's 6,000 languages are doomed because no children speak them. Researchers estimate that Africa alone has 1,800 languages, Indonesia 672 and New Guinea 800. If a language disappears, traditional knowledge tends to vanish with it, since individual language groups have specialized vocabularies reflecting native people's unique solutions to the challenges of food gathering, healing and dealing with the elements in their particular ecological niche. Hale estimates that only 300 languages have a secure future...