I always hated getting blood drawn from my fingers. Not because of the actual process -- I've been okay with blood drawing since, like, 10 -- but because those are my sax playing/videogaming/word typing fingers and they are precious.
I can never remember why I'm not supposed to like Noam Chomsky
I think it mainly has to do with conditionally supporting Hugo Chavez and having somewhat dubious views on the development of language in humans versus other animals?
I'm listening to a lecture by John McWhorton and I'm wondering if I'm going to mention that and someone politely inform me that actually I wasted all my time and money and no one is correct about anything
I dunno I didn't mean to come out and immediately be a negative nancy but I was making an earnest attempt to learn something and suddenly was struck by a compulsive desire to completely disregard everything I was hearing because the person I was listening to might turn out to be one of those people who gets roundly dismissed with what never feels like enough context.
This happens almost every time I try to study any sort of social science.
worst that happens is you end up being wrong but we're all prolly gonna end up in that pile anyways so it's best to have given it some thought along the way
there's no such thing as smart and not smart there's just people who know more things than other people
what i mean is, anyway, that there's two basic chomskies: the outspoken anarchist, and the linguist. as an anarchist, chomsky does politics, and not in a scientific mode. as a linguist, chomsky focuses on the mechanics of syntax and grammar rather than social aspects of language.
that's probably fine. i think chomsky is wrong about a lot of stuff about language, but (1) i ain't a linguist (2) he's wrong in interesting ways anyway
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Meh, I need to think about exams and such.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Cool kid hall of fame material for sure
please read this Undertale fan fiction it is very good
thank you
this makes the dragon thing pretty weird honestly
* bad linguistics
* u read his books? preachy
Paul Peng is good. I think it mainly has to do with conditionally supporting Hugo Chavez and having somewhat dubious views on the development of language in humans versus other animals?
I'm mostly pretty fine with him.
*that is a lot in one statement
*eh
I'm listening to a lecture by John McWhorton and I'm wondering if I'm going to mention that and someone politely inform me that actually I wasted all my time and money and no one is correct about anything
cats, on the other hand, have some really good ones
like, you ever try napping in a sunbeam on a breezy day? its hella
this is a good quote
This happens almost every time I try to study any sort of social science.
Mostly I'm talking about reading Wikipedia.
what i mean is, anyway, that there's two basic chomskies: the outspoken anarchist, and the linguist. as an anarchist, chomsky does politics, and not in a scientific mode. as a linguist, chomsky focuses on the mechanics of syntax and grammar rather than social aspects of language.
This is linguist Chomsky we're dealing with. I'm listening to a 2004 McWhorton lecture about language.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
As they say, hindsight is U. (Card in question was Treasure Cruise.)
(For non-MTG players, the answer to this was "It breaks them".)
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead