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
/BP -- who actually tends to agree more with
Xomskij than with Chomski.
/BP 8^)
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