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

Andreas Johansson wrote:

>Quoting Joe <joe@...>:
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>>David Peterson wrote:
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>>>Andreas wrote:
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>>><<I have zero wish to discuss Chomsky's politics here, but I'd like to
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>>>you'd think that Chomsky's linguistics, or indeed anyone's
>>>linguistics, would
>>>correlate with rightwingerhood.>>
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>>>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).
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>>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.
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>For the record, Christians are not necessarily Creationists, and Creationists
>are not necessarily Christians.
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Also a point.  I suppose I am one of those non-Creationist Christians.
I should have said Religious people.

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