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A language is a dialect with an army and navy.
Max Weinreich
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
Max Weinreich
Born:
April 22, 1894
Died:
January 29, 1969
(aged 74)
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Max Weinreich was a linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics and the Yiddish language, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who edited the Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary.
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