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Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.bsky.social |
RIP Chomsky. I choose to remember him as a linguist who asked outstanding questions and had lousy answers for them, but who nevertheless transformed a discipline and inspired decades of critics to make linguistics into a modern science
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Tom Pepinsky
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How is it that no human alive has ever uttered the sentence that I just wrote, but you still know how to understand it? That is one of those damned interesting Chomsky questions that fueled three generations of college sophomores to stay up late and bullshit one another
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Mikhail Kats
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Erm, is there a source for this news or is it a social media rumor? Searching Google News does not provide a lot of answers..
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