Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

[Jan Coffey]

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 8/3/2003 12:54:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> > Now, I think both of them are very important figures,
> > because they are extremely influential.  One is the
> > single most cited living intellectual.  The other
> > edits the most important magazine of th Left.  They
> > influence opinion.  But they are also indicators of
> > opinion - and the fact that people who believe what
> > they believe are so adulated by a fragment of the
> > political spectrum - and so completely immune from
> > criticism from _their own side_, as opposed to from
> > the other side, tells us something really important
> 
> Chomsky is one of the most important thinkers of our time but it his
> contributions to linguistics not his political views that have influence.
> Ironically his contribution (that humans are born with an inate ablilty to
> create and use language - a language learning module if you will) 

This very concept is now being chalanged. Not the spoken ability, but the
assumption made by chomsky et. al. that writen ability is also inate is now
under an increasing amount of attack. 



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               Jan William Coffey
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