Re: CHAT: Chomsky (Was Re: ALERT: Chomsky Giving a Talk on Language Creation?)

David Peterson wrote:

> Andreas wrote:
>
> <<I have zero wish to discuss Chomsky's politics here, but I'd like to
> know why
> you'd think that Chomsky's linguistics, or indeed anyone's
> linguistics, would
> correlate with rightwingerhood.>>
>
> Just for the simple reason that innate grammar sounds a lot like
> creationism.  Also, transformational grammar can make it look like
> languages not like English are wrong, and need to be fixed to behave
> more like English, underlyingly (whether that was intended or not).
>
Woah, wrong assumption straight off.  Christians are not neccesarily
right-wing.  I'd even go so far as to say that most are not.  Sorry,
just a gripe of mine.

> -David

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