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Joshua Katz

Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics, Princeton University

What Is English and How Do We Know?

Thursday
2-2-17
7:00 PM

Public Lecture
Shalala Student Center - Ballroom East
Public Invited‌

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Friday
2-3-17
10:00am

“The Goddess and Damned Wrath: How a Linguist Reads
the Iliad”
Otto G. Richter Library, Third Floor Conference Room
For UM Humanities Faculty & Grad Students

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This sentence is written in English. So, however, are these:

itjmhoF oj ofuujsx tj fdofuoft tjiU
We synt gumcynnes Geata leode
I shall not want
All mimsy were the borogoves
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs
That was a lekker braai, bru
i <3 u

What it means to be English is evidently not a simple matter.

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