• LamontCranston [any]
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    4 years ago

    The only people who try to attack his professional work in discussions of his political writings are on the right. It's a basic ad hom.

    What is this field work you keep talking about? Oh god no, did you read that Tom Wolfe book?

    • ComradeBobRojavakian [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      No, I actually read what Noam has to say about his own fucking work himself. I'm never heard of Tom Wolfe's book.

      When I got to college, I had to do an undergraduate thesis. I was in linguistics then, so I figured, “OK, I’ll write about Hebrew. It’s kind of interesting.” I started the way I was taught to: You get an informant, and you do field work and take a corpus. So I started working with an informant, and I realized after a couple of weeks, this is totally idiotic. I know the answers to all the questions. And the only thing I don’t know is the phonetics, but I don’t care about that. So I just dropped the informant and started doing it myself. https://chomsky.info/20101112/

      Lol, imagine me going to Japan as an anthropologist, say, "fuck this fieldwork bullshit, I know everything about Japan from being a Weabo" and then write a thesis on Japanese culture based solely on my consumption of Japanese mass media.

      • LamontCranston [any]
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        4 years ago

        Its based on speaking the language. Thats not being a weabo.