Re: POLITICS Chomsk was: Endless debates

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In a message dated 9/4/04 12:20:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

heidis@... writes:

What really amazes me about Chomsky is that I learned about him in

*Computer Science* class. Yeah, the same one! He has these amazing

theories about linguistics that are used in designing computer languages

and in discussing how kids learn language. The guy was way before his

time ... when I learned his theories I thought he was nuts, but he

was *right*. Yeah, I can understand why he isn't a household word!

____

Chomsky's linguistic theory is amazing and fascinating. I have a book _On

Language_ that is basically supposed to be a Chomsky reader of half politics and

half linguistics. Funny enough, there is an intro interview in which he

states that his linguistics has nothing to do with his politics, but apparently

the editor disagreed enough to combine the two into a book.

When I originally read it, when I was 16 or 17, the linguistics got to dense

with terminology I didn't understand for me to read. But, maybe if I give it

another go now I'll be able to understand it better. I watched a video about

his linguistic that I got from a school library that was great. I don't

remember the name-- Acquiring Language, maybe.

Pinker cites Chomsky in his book _Blank Slate_ that had recommended,

about the science of human nature.

Chris