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    1. 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
    2. 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
    3. 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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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Sep 2019
      Replying to @thephilosotroll @magi_jay @agraybee

      All the changes in linguistics in the last 25 years are not pertinent to the point about shifting usage that Pinker described in book, which are in fact still how this subject is understood.

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

      No, it's not. It isn't even consistent with how Chomsky, Pinker, and other semantic externalists understood changes in use 5 years after TLI was published: see Chomsky's New Horizons (2000).

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    6. Joshua Stein, philosophy, ethics, politics‏ @thephilosotroll 28 Sep 2019
      Replying to @thephilosotroll @HeerJeet and

      Of all the people bodying you here over your shallow understanding of linguistics, I might be the most sympathetic (because I'm cool with really weak conventions governing use), but you're making it hard by insisting 25-y/o-Pinker-on-dev-ling is definitive on semantics.

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

      And at this point, most of us are just cranky at you getting condescending with an actual expert (@magi_jay) with an appeal to a 25-y/o book that wasn't even intended to offer an account of semantics (much less, more narrowly, changes in semantics).

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Sep 2019
      Replying to @thephilosotroll @magi_jay @agraybee

      I apologize for citing Pinker but I'd say my tone was rooted in the original tweet which said that my diction was "pretentious" and wrong and further arguments that I should defer to academics (as if vernacular English language usage wasn't often defined outside academia).

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

      Ok... I’m still not sympathetic to being shitty to someone who is actually an expert in the field. If I were shitty to you on foreign relations having read some shit in my dad’s library that’s decades old... I’d be suitably embarrassed.

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

      But there’s a reasonable question re: who owns “gestalt” as a matter of convention. I’m open minded. Just don’t be a sh*thead about it with actual linguists.

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

      I think language belongs to everyone, not just linguists.

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

          ... ok, but like... substantive claims about the nature and structure of semantics damn sure don’t. They belong to people who study linguistics (@magi_jay, one of my supervisors, but not me) more than the rest of us (you and me).

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        2. Magdi Semrau‏ @magi_jay 28 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @thephilosotroll @agraybee

          Linguists would be the first to agree with you on this point. You could have avoided all this if you hadn’t been condescending to someone w/ expertise in the analysis of language use.

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        3. The Layman's Linguist‏ @LaymansLinguist 28 Sep 2019
          Replying to @magi_jay @HeerJeet and

          I think biological processes belong to everyone, and yet I can't imagine a scenario in which I would so brashly undermine the expertise of a trained biologist when discussing their own field. Curious.

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