Posted on 08/06/2017 5:13:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I partially credit Chomsky with development of my conservatism.
I saw him speak in college, twice. I decided the crowd thought he was “intelligent” because his ideas were complicated, rube-goldberg hairballs of conspiracy theories. Because Chomsky’s theories of the whys and wherefore’s of American policy and history were beyond comprehension, yet seemed to support what they believed, the leftist students lapped it up.
Can you briefly explain those theories that you mentioned have been proven wrong? Just curious.
Zip it, Noam.
>> Chomsky’s theories ... were beyond comprehension
Is that to say his perspective has technical merit? And that’s an honest question.
Why hasn’t anyone grown a pair and given Noam his congratulatory dirt nap yet?
O.K.
You can start with these:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/25/daniel-everett-human-language-piraha
https://aeon.co/essays/the-evidence-is-in-there-is-no-language-instinct
http://thelousylinguist.blogspot.com/2010/09/debunking-chomskys-poverty-of-stimulus.html
http://childsplay.scientopia.org/2010/09/02/754-revision/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-chomsky-s-theory-of-language-learning/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/865339/posts
But next time, do your own research instead of merely excepting someone as “expert” because that claim has been offered so frequently in the primary public media sources. The primary public media sources are not an educated persons best friend. Their venues ARE agendas.
Dude, I’m to my ass in alligayors right now.I had hoped you might just give me a brief overview in a few words but I guess that was too much to ask. Quite frankly Chomsky is not worth my time to chase him around the internet. Thanks for the advice, I’ll look at it as being worth exactly what I paid for it.
Chomsky is a dirty commie liar. He has a fancy way of speaking and that is how he is able to sell his lies to young people. Young ones think fancy speaking means he is wise.
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