Thaths wrote: [ on 10:21 PM 8/17/2007 ]
> Or Noam Chomsky, for that matter.
Explain how.
Very simple - if you have control of how an issue is framed, then the
mechanics of the discussion are relatively unimportant, as any of the
various outcomes will be more or less to your liking. Chomsky is
doing so, just as much as the mechanisms he points out -- perhaps
even self-consciously.
Some related reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-whorf
Udhay
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