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.
Right. And when I tweet, conventions are not academic ones since most people who read me aren't academics. And in that context it's okay to use word gestalt the same way Pauline Kael does, rather than the way it's used in academia.
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That doesn’t mean your use is without error; it depends on how you view the restriction of the set of governing conventions. I have a super inclusive view. Lots of linguists and semantics-people don’t. I’m the weirdo.
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And I’m not closed to you having the same view of semantics that I do, but let’s be real if it’s a super inclusive view re: conventions of use. It’s damn sure not that close to the domain restricted views I was surveying above. It’s just (like all my views) ultimately correct.
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