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

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 7, 2004, 17:37
Andreas Johansson wrote:

>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. > > >
Also a point. I suppose I am one of those non-Creationist Christians. I should have said Religious people.
> Andreas > > > >

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