'During the war, he grew to love the jazz played on American Forces Radio, which spurred a desire to move to the United States...At the start of his graduate studies, to both earn money and to work on his colloquial English, he joined a traveling amusement park in the summers, helping them set up in tiny towns through the Midwest and Plains states and selling hot dogs and ice cream'
#philosophy #linguistics #history
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2026/07/15/hans-aarsleff-towering-scholar-history-study-language-dies-100
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