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« on: August 17, 2014, 07:32:22 AM »

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« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2014, 09:13:22 AM »

Meh.
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« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2014, 09:16:03 AM »

FF on politics, HP on linguistics.
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« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2014, 10:58:09 AM »


Very much so.
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« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2014, 03:04:12 PM »

Terrible HP on politics, linguistics, and nearly every project he's embarked on throughout his horrible life.
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« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2014, 03:08:38 PM »

Too sage for my taste, though it would be dishonest of me to imply that I've read much of his works beyond snippets and brief summaries of his beliefs.
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« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2014, 03:15:50 PM »

Overrated, but obviously a smart guy. Meh.

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« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2014, 07:51:41 PM »

Would those who consider Chomsky an HP on linguistics care to say why?

The God of Linguistics is of course an FF for founding one of the fields I hold most dear to my heart.
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« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2014, 08:39:46 PM »

HP on politics, don't care on linguistics
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« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2014, 09:13:15 PM »

Would those who consider Chomsky an HP on linguistics care to say why?

The God of Linguistics is of course an FF for founding one of the fields I hold most dear to my heart.

Isn't the father of Linguistics one of the Grimm brothers?
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« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2014, 09:29:57 PM »

HP on politics, don't care on linguistics
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« Reply #11 on: August 18, 2014, 10:10:10 PM »

Lean HP
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« Reply #12 on: August 19, 2014, 12:42:13 AM »

He's alright. Yeah, he's a little kooky, but he does tell some truth sometimes.....really, you could do worse than Chomsky, btw(examples? Google Gerald Horne 1776, or Noel Ignatiev.).
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« Reply #13 on: August 19, 2014, 09:41:58 AM »

Would those who consider Chomsky an HP on linguistics care to say why?

The God of Linguistics is of course an FF for founding one of the fields I hold most dear to my heart.

Isn't the father of Linguistics one of the Grimm brothers?

It would be more accurate to say that he's the founder of contemporary linguistics and the person most central in contemporary disputes in the discipline.
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« Reply #14 on: August 19, 2014, 04:16:17 PM »

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« Reply #15 on: August 20, 2014, 09:00:42 AM »

Would those who consider Chomsky an HP on linguistics care to say why?

The God of Linguistics is of course an FF for founding one of the fields I hold most dear to my heart.

Isn't the father of Linguistics one of the Grimm brothers?

It would be more accurate to say that he's the founder of contemporary linguistics and the person most central in contemporary disputes in the discipline.

Yep; that's why I used god and not father.  Although linguistics certainly owes a lot to those who described the historical relationships between languages in the 1800s and early 1900s, the modern field does little in historical linguistics; we instead spend a lot more time arguing about meaningless differences between tedious diagrams of syntax debating fundamental questions about what constitutes a language.  Incidentally, Jakob Grimm did come up with Grimm's law, they weren't the originators of historical linguistics... it was kind of a hobby for a lot of erudite romantics at the time.  William Jones could probably have a better case about being the originator of historical linguistics.

In any case, regardless of what one thinks of his theories, Chomsky's certainly the central player or at least the originator of one of the sides in the story in almost every academic dispute in linguistics today.  Something like 20% of US tenure-track faculty in linguistics have gotten their PhDs from MIT, in large part due to his influence.  His criticism of B. F. Skinner's ideas about language helped kickstart the Cognitive Revolution that steamrolled behaviorism off the map (for a time, at least), thus almost completely reinventing psychology.
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« Reply #16 on: August 21, 2014, 03:04:07 PM »

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