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Sashadroogie
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johntpartee
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| Never heard of him. I can't get youtube so I looked him up on Wikipedia. Fascinating. Gotta get one of his books. |
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Shroob
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| Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:35 pm Post subject: Re: Absolutely love this guy! |
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An interesting video, I could only watch the first 10 minutes due to other commitments but I've downloaded it and will watch it all later. I've also just finished, 'The Language Instinct' (a number of themes are shared between the book and the Youtube video) and found that to be interesting.
Are there any books you'd recommend to novice linguists? |
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Blingcosa
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Never heard of him. I can't get youtube so I looked him up on Wikipedia. Fascinating. Gotta get one of his books. |
Are you in China, John? You can watch him on YouKu.
Yes, interesting |
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Sashadroogie
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Other books for novice linguisits? Anything by David Crystal, though again, he runs the gamut of pop science to fairly heavy-duty tomes. Great prose style too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crystal |
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johntpartee
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Bill Bryson. "The Mother Tongue: English And How It Got That Way"
THE greatest book ever written about our bizarre, convoluted language. |
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Sashadroogie
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Urrrgggghhhhhh!!! Hate, hate, hate this guy! Most over-rated hack on the planet. Gets top-prize for 'statements of the most obvious kind', however.
Fooooooo!!! |
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coledavis
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| No, Chomsky is much more over-rated. His demonstrably false bilge is hyped up by your pal Pinker. Read B.F. Skinner; to use the American phrase, he rocks. |
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Sashadroogie
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| Skinner was a visionary, and highly original, I think. But most of his behaviourist ideas' linguistic applications have been largely discredited. |
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