i skipped to the china part (cuz thats all i was really interested in) and jesus... by the end of that 2 minute section he is about a breath away from either falling asleep or just dying on camera. he is remarkably coherent for 94, though.
i skipped to the china part (cuz thats all i was really interested in) and jesus... by the end of that 2 minute section he is about a breath away from either falling asleep or just dying on camera. he is remarkably coherent for 94, though.
I saw his face and the word memorial in the title of the video and it made me panic a bit. Even politics aside, it's so cool to have a living titan of a field around. A lot of fields gad their fundamental developments in the 19th century or at the latest pre-WWII, so I always thought it was cool to have a foundational figure of modern linguistics still around.