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