Noam Chomsky: The Genius Who Changed Language and Power Forever

[@shawnwoodford-bey4044]

Thanks

[@Commonsense-u1h]

Chomsky is one of the great thinkers of the 20th century without doubt. Unfortunately, I feel linguistics has got bogged down into turf wars and is stagnating a bit as a disicipline now, but I think Chomsky did improve our understanding of language and provided many fresh insights. I´m also a really big fan of Steven Krashen, someone who was influenced by Chomsky and developed his theories for second language acquisition too.

[@RichardPepperman-kk9yb]

A great thinker? He thinks Nazrallah was an impressive guy. Chomsky has been a useful idiot for the worst of human kind.

[@Commonsense-u1h]

@@RichardPepperman-kk9yb He said he was intelligent, not that he agreed with him. There is a difference. If you´re going to judge people´s status as thinkers, first of all, try to actually understand nuances. I for example think Margaret Thatcher was a very intelligent woman, I also think she did a lot of damage to the UK.

[@DimitarBerberu]

Nothing can change the clumsy & ambiguous English or become better than the other Genious - L. L. Zamenhof who was born exactly 165 years ago & his Esperanto lives 137 years. The fastest growing language from 0 to >2mil & >10x easier than illogical English or others National langauges.

[@Commonsense-u1h]

People actually argue about that, whether Esperanto is significantly easier. It has no irregularities for sure, but learning the syntax probably takes as long as with other languages