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

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).

-David

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