WTF is hubris?
You didn’t even know what profit margin is until it was explained to you, sit down.
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That proves nothing. All leftist wacko douchebags worship Chomsky.
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We talked about this in your last thread, assuming he actually said this, Chomsky is a fucking moron for multiple reasons, but the main one being he is a professor doing the filtering.
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100% chance he’ll say this before seeing your comment (another thing Zep consistently did).
The YouTuber has to actually teach something of value for it to be educational. This video is just some guy stating theories as facts. Sorry not sorry some of us already passed intro to macro economics.
No YOU are a useful idiot taught by useful idiots. Just anther lemming in the pack.
Chompsky is to linguistics what Darwin was to evolution. And one of America’s leading dissidents. He made W F Buckley look like a fool in their debate on the Firing Line in 69’
So do I believe your criticisms? Post the debates and surrounding information. Then we shall see.
Again, what qualifications do you have that make you believe you are on par with @Bauber? So far, you have listed nothing despite claiming you have some sort of qualification. “Escaping the grind” of having a boss is not a qualification for anything.
That’s a bold claim and not even remotely close to reality. He looked at data and said that humans have a capacity to learn language. That’s not mind blowing.
He also fronted the idea that children can learn multiple languages better than adults. that has recently been proven at the very least misleading.
More stock in debates - again, those watching debates base the winner on who they want to win prior to the debate commencing - it’s pointless.
Drop this nonsense - debates are pointless - we have been down this road. You are the only one I know who puts this much stock into debates. Ability to orate or pound the table better does not make one right (just look at televangelists).
Ted Cruz won the Top Speaker award for his performances in debates at Princeton. You better listen to Ted Cruz because he’s good at debates.
That’s how dumb you sound.
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But how many can’t spell his name?
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The article is also misleading. There is a difference between learning a language “artificially” in a classroom and learning a language naturally. Whether a child or adult, the teaching method plays a significant role. Chomsky was talking more about the natural acquisition of language.
A baby, with no language, can grow up in a multi lingual environment and eventually start speaking those languages at the same time. This is with little to no direct teaching. That is a type of learning that neither a 10 year old or 40 year old will achieve in a classroom. The real test would be to compare various age groups and how they learn via immersion.
A 10 year old probably won’t have much, if any, advantage (and maybe have a disadvantage) over a 40 year old in a formal, classroom type of learning as the 10 year old might not have the attention span or desire to even be in the class in the first place.
Then you have the issue with accents. I know Spanish teachers who were not native speakers who have not been able to master the B and V sounds. Then you have younger learners who eventually not only can speak like a native with regard to grammar but with regard to pronunciation.
Yet, he couldn’t out talk Trump.
Well yeah, you are talking immersion vs book… of course there is a difference. I learned more Spanish in Mexico in one week than I did over two years from the middle aged white ladies who were my high school Spanish teachers.
And I recognize the article is from medium which is an Op-Ed for amateurs type place so I knew it was flawed too.
But hey, it’s at least as valid as most YouTube videos…
Well put.
The thing is that language teachers learn about Chomsky and his ideas on language acquisition in babies and children. It’s interesting to think about but the powers that be, linguists who have never taught language, dictate how languages are to be taught and use Chomsky as a reference. Once you learn your first language or languages, that phase is over. However, they insist that language be taught in a more natural way to imitate the process of original language acquisition. But again, it’s too late for that once you learn a language. It’s as if you have this competing intellectual process, your original language, interfering with new language learning. Anyway, this is a derail but the article does show that maybe when it comes to learning a new language, after the phase of initial learning is over, age is not a factor.
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Yet, you couldn’t hold a candle to anything I can achieve or do. Not sure what that makes you.
What exactly does linguistics have to do with MMT and the economy or education?
I am not doing your work for you. If you have actually followed Chomsky or read anything of his in detail, it would be obvious.
He is a champion of people like you and it is well known who follows him like a lemming.
I am not saying Chomsky was not smart, but he certainly isn’t someone I would emulate or follow in being successful.
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Another great example. Trump must be right about everything because he “wins” debates.
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And electionS.
Whoever said Trump was right about everything? He talked(lied) to people about things they worry about on a daily basis and he got their attention because others in the primary were not. What was Ted’s pitch? I do remember Trump making Jeb look like a fool… I thought he was funny. However, like a typical politician he bullshitted people on what he was gonna do for them. His signature legislation was to give people who have more than enough, more. Is it any wonder he ran as a Republican?