Danish linguist (1860–1943)
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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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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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