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|    Christian Weisgerber to All    |
|    William Labov passes away (2024-12-17)    |
|    18 Dec 24 14:22:54    |
      From: naddy@mips.inka.de              Wikipedia:               William Labov (/ləˈboʊv/ lə-BOHV; (December 4, 1927 – December        17, 2024) was an American linguist widely regarded as the founder        of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been        described as "an enormously original and influential figure who        has created much of the methodology" of sociolinguistics, and        "one of the most influential linguists of the 20th and 21st        centuries".              --       Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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