Let's be a bit less extravagant. Chomsky is a highly respected worker in computer linguistics, but he didn't invent linguistics, which has been around for much more than a century. He did much work with a particular type of grammar, though not the generative grammar of Beckmann which is useful for generating error messages.
Chomsky's work on transformational grammars is useful in compiler design, used to be introduced in second year computer science courses when I taught them. Doesn't propaganda analysis go back to Aristotle, if not earlier? The ancients were very interested in rhetoric, both for law courts and persuading people to do what the orator desired. Choppy At 04:57 AM 10/14/04 -0700, John Hebert wrote: >For those may not have heard of Noam Chomsky; the guy >invented the science of linguistics at MIT, laying the >groundwork for natural language computing, and was a >pioneer in media analysis.
