[AmishDude]

To be honest, I've never been impressed with linguistics in the first place and the fact that Chomsky was supposed to have been the greatest of them was to me roughly equivalent to being the tallest dwarf. I had never realized his theories were so suspect as well.

[AndyJackson]

To be honest, I've never been impressed with linguistics in the first place

Your ignorance is showing. I think it was Peggy Noonan who pointed out that the difference between liberals and conservatives is not the difference between liberal ideas and conservative ideas, but rather the difference between avoiding ideas or arguing about them. By being on the other swing of the liberal hinge you are avoiding ideas.

Linguistics is a sound rigorouse and valuable field of study.

[TomSmedley]

To be honest, I've never been impressed with linguistics in the first place and the fact that Chomsky was supposed to have been the greatest of them was to me roughly equivalent to being the tallest dwarf. I had never realized his theories were so suspect as well.

At this point in history, field linguistics is the one and only endeavor in which a Christian organization (Wycliffe Associates) is recognized as being the best in the world.