Re: Chomsky's notions

I thought the problem with Chomsky is that many people
thought it would be easy and fast to make a
translating machine using his theories, and then they
realized that it wasn't ? (but only after much money
had been spent)

--- Steve Cooney <stevencooney@...> wrote:
> --- Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
>
> > I thought Chomsky's (linguistic) notions were
> > flawed generally! ;)
>
> LOL. It's not that they are flawed, rather they were
> important steps in the process of developing a
> larger
> understanding.  Of course, we can say now that his
> studies of syntax structures - comparing them, seems
> like just another Newton's apple experiment - but
> consider what they lead to, and where they are
> going...
>
>
> -Steven Cooney

=====
Philippe Caquant

"Le langage est source de malentendus."
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

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