A lot of people just don’t believe in their hearts that different skills are a thing, that you can be good at one thing and bad at another. And people especially don’t like the notion that you can be better at the stylistic part of writing than the “making sense” part.
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Btw am I understanding you right that “syntax”, to a linguist, means the truth claims language refers to, & is separate from style?
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No. That is semantics. In classical linguistics language is made up of phonology (and orthography) - sounds (and written symbols) morphology - word composition syntax - idea-unit composition (eg sentence) semantics - 'meaning' at all levels, eg word, sentence, paragraph etc.
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He might mean that but he's hardly saying it bc after setting it all up he talks only about GPT-2 in terms of the quality of the what, not really anything on syntax-specific how. And the lack of real depth on that anywhere is what I presume sets off Marcus and Pinker.
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