Comments on: Quotes from and about the Chairman Mao of Linguistics http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teaching/linguistics-quotes/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:14:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: nicky http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teaching/linguistics-quotes/#comment-3224 nicky Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:52:46 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=1094#comment-3224 also, nice strawman argument by your boy Sam Harris there. "Chomsky might object..." Oh, he might, might he? Did he actually say that or does Sammy just need him to say it to have something to base his argument on... also, nice strawman argument by your boy Sam Harris there. “Chomsky might object…” Oh, he might, might he? Did he actually say that or does Sammy just need him to say it to have something to base his argument on…

]]> By: nicky http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teaching/linguistics-quotes/#comment-3223 nicky Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:50:48 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=1094#comment-3223 As a former linguistics student in a modest American state university with a very modest English program...Chomsky the linguist Ive been exposed to but very little, and only enough to draw some sentence trees with some very basic X bar phrase structure rules (so so you know where I'm coming from)...Chomsky the political writer I have always been left in awe at the things he writes; he can't just be making it all up can he? I think in general he portrays the machinations of "the powerful elites" in such a stark, simple way that it ends up being hard to swallow for those who feel alluded to or feel identified with that power. "Now that can't be true...can it? No, no, can't be." End of rant. As a former linguistics student in a modest American state university with a very modest English program…Chomsky the linguist Ive been exposed to but very little, and only enough to draw some sentence trees with some very basic X bar phrase structure rules (so so you know where I’m coming from)…Chomsky the political writer I have always been left in awe at the things he writes; he can’t just be making it all up can he?

I think in general he portrays the machinations of “the powerful elites” in such a stark, simple way that it ends up being hard to swallow for those who feel alluded to or feel identified with that power. “Now that can’t be true…can it? No, no, can’t be.”

End of rant.

]]> By: Brandon Fike http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teaching/linguistics-quotes/#comment-3192 Brandon Fike Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:19:53 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=1094#comment-3192 I like the title of this post. I like the title of this post.

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