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.
I would respect expertise if people could actually explain what is wrong with using the word "gestalt" the way other writers before me have and in a way sanctioned by a reputable dictionary. Or do only professors get to to define words?
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The position advocated by all the linguists I lumped into a single view is that conventions depend on the speakers who use the term; if that’s an academic community, then it’s the academics whose conventions (collectively) matter.
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Just like the conventions of users (collectively) of “yeet” determine what “yeet” means. As someone outside of that idiolect, my idiosyncratic usage doesn’t change the meaning. But, again, I’m doing intro class bullsh*t. Instead, I’m going to drink
@JagermeisterUSA.
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