Ocupation: Anthropologist
Life: January 26, 1884 - February 4, 1939
Birthday: January 26
Death: February 4
So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.
source: Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.264, Walter de Gruyter
topic: Vocabulary, Spirit, Common, International Language