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by jswizzy 1926 days ago
Is in his prime code for before everything he made up about langue was debunked?
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Not sure, why you attack him with such malice. I don’t agree with Chomsky in a lot of topics, still I believe he’s one of the large, great intellectuals of our time. Listen to his sentences when he talks ... I would have a hard time writing so eloquently (and he just speaks them).

By the way, I assume you mean “Language” not “langue”, or did you want to refer to the social consensus on how signs are applied. The later is not so much Chomsky but de Saussure. Chomsky started in the 60s with Competence/Performance ...

Language is hard :) I know and Chomsky contributed a lot in understanding it better, even though he didn’t reach you it seems.

I think the OP hints to Chomsky’s age. He’s 93 years old, which obviously impacts his talking and presentation skills.

I’m really impressed every time I see a recent video of Chomsky, he seems to still have his full cognition and is still energetic and motivated by his political goals. At his age that’s not a given.