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If you are comparing Sowell and Chomsky then Sowell will come up noticeably short. First, Chomsky is a towering figure in linguistics. He's emeritus at MIT, tau
by CalChris 10y ago
If you are comparing Sowell and Chomsky then Sowell will come up noticeably short. First, Chomsky is a towering figure in linguistics. He's emeritus at MIT, taught at IAS. Really.
Genius in linguistics who exploited that fame Wow. Name another famous linguistics academic who's exploited the fame we bestow upon linguistics academics.
Sowell has a sinecure at Hoover. He's a towering figure at ... ?
- m52go 10y ago> If you are comparing Sowell and Chomsky then Sowell will come up noticeably short. If you carefully reread my comment, you'll notice I didn't compare the two.
- CalChris 10y agoYou may wish to carefully re-read your own writing. You'll find that when you ask the same rhetorical question about two subjects in parallel that most people are gonna say that you've implicitly compared them.