By Nguyễn Mỹ Hà If you are a trained linguist and teach at a university all your life, chances that you become famous are quite low. If you are really good and you have found or done something remarkably interesting, then may be your students will read your books and discuss them in your class. But people beyond the academic world would have little or no interest in what you find really fascinating. Internationally, the only linguist who’s known well beyond immediate academic circles is Noam Chomsky, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a famous political dissident, theoretical linguist and cognitive scientist, who, at the height of the American War visited Hà Nội for a week and lectured at Bách Khoa University, today’s University of Technology. But over the few past weeks, linguist Bùi Hiền has become an internet sensation, not just in Việt Nam, after his paper suggesting a new way of recording the … [Read more...] about All in the name of love for Tiếng Việt