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    1. The Substack of Boba Fett‏ @agraybee 27 Sep 2019

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Sep 2019
      Replying to @agraybee

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Sep 2019
      Replying to @SousPlage @agraybee

      I was writing in English, not German. It's fairly common for words to shift meaning as they over time, especially if they move across languages. Would recommend Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct if this confuses you.

      8 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
    5. Magdi Semrau‏ @magi_jay 28 Sep 2019
      Replying to @HeerJeet @agraybee

      As someone w/ an advanced degree in Ling, I would not necessarily recommend that book. Also, if you read beyond that book, you might realize that linguistic shifts aren’t universally applied between popular language use & more esoteric borrowings from academiapic.twitter.com/hgByak3voL

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Sep 2019
      Replying to @magi_jay @agraybee

      With all due respect, I'm going to trust Noam Chomsky, who endorsed the book and knows a thing or two about linguistics, over you.

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        2. The Substack of Boba Fett‏ @agraybee 28 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @magi_jay

          Pinker is, shall we say, ersatz.

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        2. Joshua Stein, philosophy, ethics, politics‏ @thephilosotroll 28 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @magi_jay @agraybee

          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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        3. Joshua Stein, philosophy, ethics, politics‏ @thephilosotroll 28 Sep 2019
          Replying to @thephilosotroll @HeerJeet and

          ... 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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        2. Matthew Anderson ✡️ 🌈‏ @AdumbroDeus 28 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @magi_jay @agraybee

          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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        3. Matthew Anderson ✡️ 🌈‏ @AdumbroDeus 28 Sep 2019
          Replying to @AdumbroDeus @HeerJeet and

          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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        1. Joseph Clark‏ @clarkjosephf 28 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @magi_jay @agraybee

          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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        1. FEMINazgûl, B.A.‏ @WordsOnIce 28 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @magi_jay @agraybee

          Delete this snide crap and apologize.

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        2. Julia Watcher of the Seals. The Flame of Tar Valon‏ @gray_jedi_ 28 Sep 2019
          Replying to @PelosiSquadFive @HeerJeet and

          I can’t find the original tweet. What did he say?

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