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Was Sapir born in Lauenberg or in Lauenburg?
Good query, turns out it is the latter.
I will attempt to un-stub this article as time permits! nsh 01:15, Mar 17, 2004 (UTC)
We should really add a photo of Sapir to the page, such as http://stills.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/photo/esapir.JPG, provided we can get permission. geshane 2005/01/21
What illness was Sapir suffering from when Whorf sbstituted for him?
"Sapir is also widely known for his ironic appreciation of NASCAR racing, dill pickles, and whoopee cushions." Can somebody provide evidence (sources?) to confirm or refute this claim, added by 216.229.180.164 on 27 September 2006?
Is there a reason that Sapir's name has such a ridiculous pronunciation, or is it a mistake? I am referring to the use of the open-mid back vowel in the unstressed first syllable of his name. Such a pronunciation would be unnatural and difficult for an English speaker, who would tend to weaken it to /sə'piɹ/. The use of the sound /ɹ/ obviously indicates that the name is meant to be English.
Add a disambig or something, there's an article existing called Tamir Sapir --Shandris 11:03, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
I have been unable to find Sapir's place of death for the Wikipedia:Persondata for this article. Can anybody help? TheGrappler 23:58, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
I think this is a mistake. There are at least two notable Jewish/Israeli personalities with this last name, such as Yosef Sapir. A disambiguation page is needed. However, I don't have time to create one at the moment. If someone can do this, I'd be greatful. -- Ynhockey (Talk) 23:32, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Why on Earth Sapir is called here "a leader in American structural linguistics"? Unlike Leonard Bloomfield, Sapir has nothing to do with structuralism! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.237.182.231 (talk) 00:47, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Not sure that's uncontroversial; supporters of Bloomfield and Chomsky might certainly dispute it... AnonMoos (talk) 09:18, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
Sorry if I got it wrong. It's just that the article has "widely considered to be one of the most important figures" in the opening sentence. Then soon in the next paragraph the article has "one of the most influential and important linguists". I was thinking that this article could go to GAN and even FAC, but repetitious wording could hinder it, especially at FAC, as well as "peacock" descriptions, IMHO. Just my 2 cents.
I minored in Anthropology at Berkeley and Sapir was highly thought of there, though he didn't have a building named after him like Kroeber did! MathewTownsend (talk) 15:08, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
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Is it a problem to say Sapir is Jewish somewhere prominent? It has confused the hell out of me in the course of a dispute on another article due to his views on Hebrew being a "secondary" language, while classifying Arabic as a classical language. I understand from this article he is an expert in Germanic languages but I believe he has a background in Biblical Hebrew as well? It might be helpful to editors working on this subject to have this information because I accidentally removed a quote by him for writing weird things about Hebrew in the 1920s and then I was yelled at and insulted and told to go to 4chan by an editor with 63093(!) edits. I'm still hurt, maybe if we add it to the article, we can spare lowly and simple editors like myself the experience of such strong chastisement in the future? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zephrine (talk • contribs) 06:11, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
The importance of him being Jewish is twosome. His life was affected by it, as noted in his personal biography at least three times: About his parents, his marriage, and his acceptance in Otawa and Yale and the antisemitism he met.
Secondly, his interest in linguistics (and of his Jewish personal teachers and friends) stemmed from being foreigners who speak Yiddish (German) and Hebrew and have a separate culture. He actually wrote about this and about his Jewish identity as shown in The Life and Times of Edward Sapir by Edgar E. Siskind published in the Jewish Social Studies publication Vol. 48, No. 3/4, Summer - Autumn, 1986.פשוט pashute ♫ (talk) 06:13, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
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