Chomsky -- Put up or blah blah

Curtiss Leung bofftagstumper at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 27 19:08:27 PST 2000


Somebody wrote:


> I find his (Chomsky's) writing about linguistics
> more than amply appalling.

What's so appalling about them? Chomsky killed behaviorism, at least as a model for human language acquisition and function. Until we have a completely brain based account of language, I don't see what's so terrible about it. -- Curtiss, over quota.

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