Rough Theory

My reading group continues to struggle with its current project – putting together an appropriate reading list on Chomsky’s linguistic theory. Part of our problem is the signal-to-noise ratio generated by Chomsky’s political writings, which of course attract a great deal of commentary that is not directly useful for our current goal. As one reading group member observes: “Clearly hunting down Chomsky links can take you to unexpected and murky corners of the Internet.” And in one of those corners, they uncovered this:

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