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

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 7, 2004, 20:03
At 17:44 7.1.2004, 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.
Sure does.
>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
It can.
>(whether that was intended or not).
Whatever the intention that's what it looks like.
>-David
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