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once again
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| Is 11.2 posts a day a record? |
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dmb
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| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 11:50 am Post subject: |
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| once again wrote: |
| Is 11.2 posts a day a record? |
I tried to do a search on this but the closest that it comes is to total number of posts |
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hamel
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| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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hey new poster lubeck: i love your avatars, but i wonder what old george would think of a moderated forum and even the internet? also, i don't think he would share your disdain for bush. no one talks about kerry's botoxed forhead. president bush is still the prez--what country are you from?
but again, love the orwell photos. |
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moonraven
Joined: 24 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Another political illiterate among us. Just what we needed....Where do you neanderthals find comfy caves these days? |
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2 over lee
Joined: 07 Sep 2004
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Location: www.specialbrewman.blogspot.com
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| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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Back to the original topic, let�s look out for Bush�s transmitter tonight in the 3rd debate.
And as I�m not going to be answered, I�d like to say Robert�s previous avatar reminded me of a time in an Edinbrugh bookstore trying to decide which Orwell bio to buy, it was quite a decision. Eventually I decided the one which hadn�t won a prize would be more reliable. |
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poro
Joined: 04 Oct 2004
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| Bush did quite badly in that debate, so does it make sense to speculate whether the bulge was a receiver? I mean, wouldn't one expect a more polished performance, if he really was being remote-controlled? |
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moonraven
Joined: 24 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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| No. The guy is the archetype of the Complete Cretin, Meanspirited Model. |
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nomadic
Joined: 14 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, I mean I disagree with Pinker's notions entirely - especially when presented to a lay audience with whom he can get away with presenting false dichotomies. If you want a look at some of his more serious research, check out his 'Learnability and Cognition: The acquisition of argument structure', in which he investigates the bootstrapping of the acquisition of syntactic frames within a Chomskyan Universal Grammar framework and centered around Baker's Paradox. |
I imagine you know far more than I do about the linguistics aspects of cognitive development, so I'll delay replying in depth to this until I get a chance to read some more about the subject. However, such a hardline stance against nativism seems to be a little over-zealous, doesn't it? The neuroanatomy of the regions of the brain dealing most with language (Broca's & Wernicke's regions) seem to have a definite structure which starts to form before language is possible, if I recall correctly. And structure often gives rise to function.
(This is a stance that is well understand and not challenged to virtually every aspect of our anatomy. The notable exception at first glance seems to be the brain, which many contend can develop in any way suited towards the environment. But this is a fallacy as well. There is a well known structure in the brain, and while it IS capable of some adaptation, it's easy to see that this structure must be an innate characteristic. We're not merely born with a head full of neurons floating around in space.)
But, that said, when time permits, I'll definitely read a little more on the subject... that's part of why I'm heading to China anyways. ;)
Cheers,
- nomadic |
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