Some people master all of a language's various structures relatively quickly, some get most of it but miss a few things, and some never gain much mastery over language.
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Some of Chomsky’s most important claims cannot reasonably be considered scientific achievements at all. When you consider how much Chomsky can see in language which nobody else can seem to find, you realize the degree to which Chomsky truly is the intellectual heir of Percival Lowell. One wonders whether, when Chomsky was asked to speak at Westpoint, he recalled his statement that the Pentagon is "the most hideous institution on this earth" and, if so, whether he made the connection that the Pentagon has always been run by those whose values were shaped at West Point and its fellow service academies. |
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