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to everyone mad about this: yes chomsky is an old man but anarchists periodically need to be put in their place so people dont start thinking they have rational political views— Virgil Hexas 🦇🦇🦇 (@virgiltexas) October 12, 2020

Virgil Texas has declared war on Anarchism

Edit: Lol did I start a site wide struggle session?

Edit2: keep it going. Is this the most commented normal post yet?

    • badbackjack [none/use name]
      6·
      4 years ago

      I'll pay anyone their weight in Reddit gold if they can find me clip of him speaking anything other than english.

      • ap1 [any,undecided]
        1·
        4 years ago

        Linguistics is where you speak other languages fluently :galaxy-brain:

        • badbackjack [none/use name]
          5·
          4 years ago

          Not exactly. It is the study of language itself. Though with a mastery of linguistics, the mastery of individual languages themselves is supposedley a simple thing.

          • ap1 [any,undecided]
            ·
            4 years ago

            the mastery of individual languages themselves is supposedley a simple thing.

            says who lol

            • badbackjack [none/use name]
              6·
              4 years ago

              Are you serious? Lemme guess. Two years of spanish in high school and don't remember a thing, right? Same here till I went back and got a degree in a foreign language. They make you take at least one linguistic class and its still the only class that sticks out in my head till this day. And of course Noam Chomsky's name pops up on literally the first page of the first chapter. The father of one of my classmates was a linguist who worked in tribal areas of Colombia. He could supposedly break down a tribal language in about a day and be fluent in less than a month. I say this because I just find it odd that I've never so much as heard Linguist Number One pronounce a foreign name with any real inflection - much less speak in a foreign language. Anyway.........

              • ap1 [any,undecided]
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                4 years ago

                there are different aspects to linguistics and having a concrete understanding in one aspect doesn't give you the magical abilities to memorize and pronounce languages well

                • badbackjack [none/use name]
                  3·
                  4 years ago

                  But it does mean that in 50+ years of public life, international travel and acclaim that the world's premiere linguist should probably , yknow, have a recording of him saying "Hola" out there somewhere. He supposedly sealed the deal with his wife back in the day using his mastery of Hebrew. To be honest, you kinda sound like you don't know much about linguistics.