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Replying to @Christakou
What's the difference between curator and dictator?
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Replying to @Christakou
Not really going to go into this on Twitter. I'm sure there's a lot of more nuanced stuff that I could say already written up by others.
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But obviously I'll give you a rough idea: 1. having a single person in charge of a field isn't really how progress is made;
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Replying to @o_guest @Christakou
2. a lot of his ideas have been superseded, shown to be misplaced, shown to have diverted linguistics into blind alleys and all this would
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Replying to @o_guest @Christakou
have been noticed sooner if there was more room at the top, than just a single person, as I am sure you can imagine;
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Replying to @o_guest
This is all a problem of the rest of the field. Can't blame someone if they are blindly adored. You're talking about what other people do.
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It's interesting you mention blame. Chomsky = linguistics (a field he pretty much created).
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Replying to @o_guest @Christakou
When you have a leader you can't _just_ blame the followers.
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