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).
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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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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 -
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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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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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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I think language belongs to everyone, not just linguists.
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... 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).2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
I definitely agree that
@magi_jay is far better equipped than me to judge whether Language Instinct is still valuable. But in terms of how the words gestalt can be used in an English sentence my position remains that language belongs to everyone, not just academic experts.2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Again, only if “gestalt” is in the domain of use not governed primarily by academics. And (again) that’s different than your condescending bullsh*t about citing Chomsky/Pinker as authorities.
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Twitter is not a domain of use governed by academics -- thank god.
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I’m not sure any of us want to live in a world where twitter governs the linguistic conventions of any words, phrases, or really anything, ever.
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