Quote of the day
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
Geoffrey Sampson

Born: 1944 (age 82)
Bio: Geoffrey Sampson is Professor of Natural Language Computing in the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex. He produces annotation standards for compiling corpora of ordinary usage of the English language.
Known for:
- Schools of linguistics (1980)
- Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction (1985)
- English for the computer (1995)
- Empirical linguistics (2001)






