Linguistics Nerd - Fact #1

Peter Ladefoged was a linguist at UCLA who wrote one of the textbooks that we're using in my Linguistics class, Sound Structure of Language. This was the guy who wrote the transcriptions and recorded his voice for the recordings that Henry Higgins plays over and over again in the movie, "My Fair Lady." I bring him up because Ladefoged passed away yesterday on his way to India to do fieldwork. I've been pretty intrigued to read his book, so this was sad news. If you want to read more about an eccentric linguist, here's his home page:
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/