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|    db to Steve Hayes    |
|    Re: The English language is doomed    |
|    12 Oct 18 13:02:43    |
      XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage       From: dieterhansbritz@gmail.com              On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 05:13:38 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:              > Noam Chomsky, the plain-speaking philosopher and cognitive scientist par       > excellence, complained to a French newspaper last year that “when I hear       > words like ‘dialectic’ or ‘hermeneutic’ and other pseu       o-profundities,       > then, like Goering, I reach for my gun”…              I agree with him on those words, beloved by       sociologists, but this is one of the silliest things       he has said. I usually like everything he says. I       would be surprised if he even owns a gun.              --       Dieter Britz              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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