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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Language
"What every global citizen needs to know about language": Linguistics, Anybody?

The article, which contains some politically correct errors but is nevertheless interesting, borrows extensively from the ideas of Noam Chomsky, whom it laments is "far better known for his political activism than his theory of syntax." A rightist friend of mine once suggested that Prof. Chomsky's ultra-leftist politics were an attepmt to make-up for his ultra-rightist linguistic theories.