Probal Dasgupta notes on Facebook the significance of 7/26: on 7/26/1887, L. L. Zamenhof (15 December 1859 – 14 April 1917) published (in Warsaw, under the pseudonym Doktoro Esperanto) his Dr. Esperanto’s International Language (Esperanto: Unua Libro), describing what has become the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language (PB is, among many things, an Esperantist).
So this is Esperanto Day — also, I note, the birthday of psycholinguist Eve Clark (an old friend and Stanford colleague, recently elected — wow! — to the British Academy: born 1942) and of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger (still rocking, even though he’s almost as old as I am: born 1943).
Z -names. Esperanto Day brings us the first mention of Zamenhof on this blog. As a Z-person, I treasure Z-names (though I point out that Dr. Esperanto’s surname would be much better if it were Zwamenhof).
As it happens, along with Zamenhof, today brought me a reference to the American record producer Zeuss (pronounced like the mythological Zeus, English /zus/), so it’s been an especially good Z-morning.
From Wikipedia:
Christopher Harris (born April 1, 1972), known professionally as Chris “Zeuss” Harris or simply Zeuss, is an American record producer.
Zeuss is best known in the worlds of hard rock, heavy metal music, hardcore punk, and metalcore. He has engineered, produced, mixed, and mastered albums by a number of high-profile acts
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