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

Quoting Joe <joe@...>:

> 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.
For the record, Christians are not necessarily Creationists, and Creationists
are not necessarily Christians.

                                                   Andreas

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