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   Message 62,119 of 62,757   
   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   
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