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

      pic.twitter.com/juYeEzebmG

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    3. 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
    4. 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

      2 replies 5 retweets 131 likes
    5. 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.

      13 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
    6. 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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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Sep 2019
      Replying to @thephilosotroll @magi_jay @agraybee

      Sigh. What an endless game of moving the goal post. Is my use of "gestalt" within normal English dictionary meaning? Yes. Does knowing German give authority for judging English usage? No. Is Language Instinct a good Chomsky endorsed popular introduction to linguistics? Yes.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Sep 2019
      Replying to @SousPlage @thephilosotroll and

      If the word has long standing English meanings and is used in an English sentence, the German meaning is of only antiquarian interest. With all respect to your knowledge of German, Merriam-Webster & Pauline Kael are better guides than you.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Sep 2019
      Replying to @SousPlage @thephilosotroll and

      Sigh. I'll note that I was born in India & English is my second language. Do you enjoy using your academic rank to telling brown immigrants that their English is substandard and they are "stupid"? You see how tiresome this sort of argument from identity gets?

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        2. Jeff Fecke‏ @jkfecke 28 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @thephilosotroll and

          Jeet, you used Gestalt to mean a part of a thing. It's just wrong. You were wrong. I've misused words too. Just admit you made a mistake and stop claiming that ACTUALLY, you know more about linguistics than trained linguists because you read a book by a guy Epstein funded.

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        3. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein 28 Sep 2019
          Replying to @jkfecke @HeerJeet and

          He didn't use gestalt to mean "a part of a thing," though. He meant something like "the whole Obama-Clinton ball of wax," a collection of people and ideas that fit together into something larger than its parts.

          4 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
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        1. Magdi Semrau‏ @magi_jay 28 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @thephilosotroll @agraybee

          Jeet, this is how you started the conversation with me:pic.twitter.com/xFzArwcV4G

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        1. mike m‏ @mmcgrath42 28 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @thephilosotroll and

          jeet, I went to a state school and speak one language, so let me commend you on the fact that you are remarkably able to express your awful takes in perfect english. would not have known english was not your first language had you not said anything.

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        1. Kavita Nair‏ @KavitaNair70 28 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @thephilosotroll and

          Kinda what you are doing Jeet..

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        1. Centrism Fan Acct  🔹‏ @Wilson__Valdez 28 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @thephilosotroll and

          Jeet my man. Just log off.

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