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[Ben Zimmer]

Here it is without the annoying MST3K-wannabe commentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfMrVqn-Htk

I see the principal advisor was W. Freeman Twaddell (chair of Brown's
linguistics department -- he brought Kučera and Francis together and
suggested they start the Brown Corpus). Also listed as a consultant is
Harry Hoijer, perhaps most famous for coining the phrase "the Sapir–Whorf
hypothesis" (having studied with Sapir at Univ. of Chicago).

On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 2:56 PM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:

> > There was one movie in the series ("The Alphabet Conspiracy") that was
> about linguistics.  Does anyone remember that one?
> A tad before my time, but imdb has a couple nice reviews of it (and the
> Bell series) and, of course, that one's one YT:
> https://youtu.be/CMIyAOXxWR8
>
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 2:16 PM James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 13:44:06 Zone-0400 Laurence Horn <
> > laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> posted
> >
> > <quote>Does anyone else recall an elementary-school-friendly info movie
> > entitled “Hemo the Magnificent”?
> > <end quote>
> >
> > Yes, I remember the Bell Science Series, of which "Hemo the Magnificent"
> > was the second one I saw, back in elementary school.  There was one movie
> > in the series ("The Alphabet Conspiracy") that was about linguistics.
> Does
> > anyone remember that one?
> >
>

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