acted as president of the Fourth International Congress of Linguists in Copenhagen in 1936. Jespersen was an important figure in the international language movement. He was an early supporter of the Esperanto offshoot Ido and in 1927 published his own project Novial. He also worked with the International Auxiliary Language Association. Jespersen received honorary degrees from Columbia University in New York (1910), St. Andrews University in Scotland (1925), and the Sorbonne in Paris (1927). He was one of the first six international scholars to be elected as honorary members of the Linguistic Society of America. Are you — do they still teach at Bahia on Sunday? Night? Oh yeah. In fact I would have gone today, if it wasn't for my back. Well I finally found some people