Jeet Heer has mastered the art of confidently using pretentious words he doesn't understand, knowing that most people will be too intimidated to challenge him and risk looking stupid. But some of us know what gestalt means, and that ain't it.
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Pinker is, shall we say, ersatz.
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Setting aside basic issues that (a) Chomsky's "endorsement" of the book was 25 years ago, (b) it was not a straightforward endorsement, (c) Chomsky's views have changed significantly since then, and (d) linguistics has changed significantly since then... 1/2
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... it may be *also* be worth considering the significant number of folks who took issue with everything in TLI, ranging from Pinker's characterization of the UG hypothesis (Fodor), characterization of the linguistic data (Samson), and the developmental psych (Karmiloff-Smith).
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I'm pretty sure the position of a linguist right now holds more weight than a qualified endorsement that was over 2 decades ago. Like, new things develop in Linguistics over the decades. Academic fields aren't static and if you're not a linguist you aren't qualified to judge.
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Like, come on this is incredibly rich coming at a trained linguist with a blurb Chomsky wrote decades ago. Chomsky and her could have a discussion but an academic disagreeing with something a more famous academic wrote decades ago doesn't make you more knowledgeable than them.
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Oh, well, if the Linguistics Pope gave Pinker his ex cathedra seal of approval, I guess that's all settled, then.
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Delete this snide crap and apologize.
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I can’t find the original tweet. What did he say?
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