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Also known as Jens Otto Harry Jespersen, Otto Espersen

Danish linguist (1860–1943)

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Born
1860
Died
1943
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  • Modersmalets fonetik, anden udvidede og gennemsigtede udgave
  • Ergänzungsheft zu Spoken English
  • Lehrbuch der Phonetik
  • Logic & grammar
  • Chaucer's liv og digtning

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Otto Jespersen (born 21 July 1954) is a Norwegian comedian and satirist. He started in the local radio Radio Nova in Oslo. In 1988 he was, together with his collaborates Stig Holmer and Charlo Halvorsen, to launch the magazine Revolvermagasinet on Norwegian national radio. This, a night time, underground-ish show, focused on satire and weird interviews. In 1992 Jespersen, Holmer and Halvorsen teamed up for in The Show - storbymoro for enslige i Utkant-Norge on national television. <a href="https

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Born
( 1860-07-16 ) 16 July 1860, Randers , Denmark
Died
30 April 1943 (1943-04-30) (aged 82), Roskilde , Denmark
Occupation
Linguist

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Jens Otto Harry Jespersen ( Danish: [ˈʌtsʰo ˈjespɐsn̩]; 16 July 1860 – 30 April 1943) was a Danish linguist who worked in foreign-language pedagogy, historical phonetics, and other areas, but is best known for his description of the grammar of the English language. Steven Mithen describes him as "one of the greatest language scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."

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