I am not inclined to argue about linguistics for multiple reasons.
Sometimes on politics, Chomsky's delivery comes across more like sermons than discussion. It's certainly true that there is a category of dialogue where it is perfectly understood that someone might call an idea the stupidest they have ever heard and that title might not last long because either someone will say something stupider or exchange of information MIGHT occur. The other point of that though is that receiving holy writ is different from building political movements. Chomsky delivers a lot of the former and other voices do bettera bout the latter.
DoreneC
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Jun 9, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Aaron Stark wrote:
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> -Aaron (sorry for the extra-long post, back to lurking)
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> No apology necessary!
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