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[nomadder]

Excuse me?

Are you sure your last name is not Pinker?

Have his theories been as scientifically proven as the earth rotating around the sun?

At a gut level most of it felt wrong. Sorry I can't be more specific than that but I left his book behind a few years ago and he doesn't interest me. If I were writing a thesis about it then perhaps your attack would make a little more sense though it would hardly be justified. I certainly do not need to defend my opinions to a stranger on the internet.

If you like him, great but I have to wonder why you defend him so vehemently and why you need to name call others who have different opinions. Galileo or Newton he is not.

[Stephen Jones]

[Cdaniels]

For us who ain't be such fancy linguist types: In Pinker's The Language Instinct, he favors a decriptive approach over a prescriptive approach.


Edit:to grammer(s). or I guess maybe to linguistics altogether. Try this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescriptive_grammar