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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 23 Mar 2016

    Lane Greene: The theories of the world's best-known linguist [Chomsky] have become rather weird. http://econ.st/1RiWKYz  via @TheEconomist

    1:50 PM - 23 Mar 2016
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      2. Richard Savage‏ @Richard79360562 23 Mar 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @TheEconomist Oh well, what has not become weird is a very legitimate question? Check out the latest physics: strings with loops!

        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
      3. Richard Savage‏ @Richard79360562 23 Mar 2016
        Replying to @Richard79360562

        @sapinker @TheEconomist Quite frankly, you need to be weird yourself, to believe what the latest physics theories propose might be reality!

        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
      4. Richard Savage‏ @Richard79360562 24 Mar 2016
        Replying to @Richard79360562

        @sapinker @TheEconomist What else can you conclude, given the extravagant claims of postmodern physics about string theory and multiverses!

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      2. Tom Leach‏ @tomtheguvnor 23 Mar 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @TheEconomist inherently suspicious of anyone resorting to ad hominem attacks in response to criticism, no matter their past work.

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      3. Victor Rivera  🇵🇷 👻 🎃 👹‏ @cognitivicta 23 Mar 2016
        Replying to @tomtheguvnor

        @tomtheguvnor @sapinker exactly. Always so strange in my linguistic classes/sections of classes that his vitriol prominent part of story

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      1. Pablo Petrucci‏ @pabpetrucci 23 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @TheEconomist this is hardly a well-argued piece

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      1. September Girl‏ @aMarienbad 23 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker Loutish and silly house style by @TheEconomist—should either call him plain 'Chomsky', or use 'Dr' (/'Prof'). Not 'Mr Chomsky'

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      1. Alex Yoder‏ @alex_yoder 23 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @TheEconomist "Merge" may be a stretch, but evolving a tool for internal thought which later became communicative seems plausible.

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      1. Andreas Kroksgård‏ @AKroksgard 23 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @TheEconomist "silly weird einstein thinks that gravity bends light, how weird".

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      1. Andreas Kroksgård‏ @AKroksgard 23 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @TheEconomist stupid piece. 1) not weird, logical. 2) his theory has been this way fot atleast a decade.

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      2. corporate yes-man‏ @vojacar 24 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @TheEconomist @jugbaba

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      3. Jugbaba‏ @jugbaba 24 Mar 2016
        Replying to @vojacar

        @vojacar @sapinker @TheEconomist dokle ćemo biti ispred sveta Vojo?

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      4. corporate yes-man‏ @vojacar 24 Mar 2016
        Replying to @jugbaba

        @jugbaba @sapinker @TheEconomist uvek ako treba, to je naša dužnost prema istom tom svetu :/

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      5. Jugbaba‏ @jugbaba 24 Mar 2016
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        @vojacar @sapinker @TheEconomist https://secure.static.tumblr.com/3e6a0932d7665476465f0f25062fa9b7/xr9suoq/pRFnilzjr/tumblr_static_f3yyyxa9d80sowcs448kco40o_640_v2.jpg …

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      1. Pontus Stenkvist‏ @stonegtbt 24 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @EconCulture @TheEconomist well, Chomsky was right and the Economist was wrong..

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      1. Anna Komnene‏ @KuchukHanem 24 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @aliamjadrizvi @TheEconomist What a hack job.

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      1. Harald‏ @equalitus 24 Mar 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @TheEconomist But not less logic, coherent, plausible, or even fair and righteous?

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      1. Suzanne Cloud‏ @SuzanneCloud 24 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @TheEconomist Such a poorly written attack on Chomsky and his ideas, I wonder why you retweeted.pic.twitter.com/Xdy9anc8Ap

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      1. Process Express Int.‏ @process101 24 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker Added your tweet to my @RebelMouse http://rbl.ms/1RAQn8F 

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