Chomsky still alive, but not taking calls

Boston Globe ^ | September 22, 2006 | Mark Shanahan

[RightWingAtheist]

No, it's been pretty well settled that we have some innate capacity for language acqusition that Chomsky was talking about. Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct is the best book on the topic for laymen.

[RedRover]

I've heard of Pinker's book and thought the theory was still considered highly speculative. I'll check it out. Thanks!

[RightWingNilla]

How screwy do you have to be to think that something like this would have a snowball's chance in hell of ever working.

I find it depressing people buy into Chomsky and his nonsense just because its couched in fancy wording.

[RightWingNilla]

I've heard of Pinker's book and thought the theory was still considered highly speculative. I'll check it out. Thanks!

Pinker takes Chomsky and the whole Postmodernist movement apart in "The Blank Slate".

[js1138]

He was the first to suggest that there was an innate "linguistic module" that instinctively allows us to acquire language.

He applied Dembski math to language learning, asserting that the "linguistic module" could not have evolved, and language learning cannot happen via an evolutionary algorithm.

He was and remains an ID proponent. Language is irreducibly complex.

[Liberty Valance]

I have to laugh at the thought of
commie/socialist/marxists wanting
to "$ell more book$" in this
Capitalist society. The irony seems
to be completely lost on them. ;o)