Making the Argument for Sanskrit

[George Thompson]

Sir William Jones.  He was in touch with Ben Franklin & indirectly with 
Th. Jefferson, both of whom collected word-lists from various languages, 
including Sanskrit lists.

See this website posted by Mark Liberman at Univ. of Pennsylvania:

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/coll002/Liberman5.ppt

George Thompson

Toke Lindegaard Knudsen wrote:

>On Thursday, January 11, 2007, at 02:10PM, "Dominik Wujastyk" <ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK> wrote:
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>>Further to David's point below, it could be useful to compile a list of 
>>particularly famous people who had Sanskri, sometimes unexpectedly, in 
>>their backgrounds.  Using such a list would be purely a rhetorical device, 
>>but could still be effective in winning some hearts and minds.
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>>examples off the top of my head:
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>>Hermann Grassmann (1809-1877), famous mathematician.
>>Leonard Bloomfield (1887--1949), structural linguist, behaviourist,
>>  scholar of American Indian languages, and founder of the Linguistic
>>  Society of America.
>>Ferdinand de Saussure (1857--1913), linguist, founder of structuralism.
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>T. S. Eliot (1888?1965), poet, dramatist, and literary critic.
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>Toke
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