Real Correspondence: Noam Chomsky to Max Scherzer

by Carson Cistulli - September 13, 2012

Here’s a completely authentic and totally unadulterated message from noted linguist and spokesman of the American Left Noam Chomsky’s Twitter account to avant-garde sportsman Max Scherzer from this morning, apropos a central idea from the former’s work on generative grammar (click to embiggen):

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4 Responses to “Real Correspondence: Noam Chomsky to Max Scherzer”

1. Mr. Observant says:

   September 13, 2012 at 4:37 pm

   Ahhhh, semioticians – what a bunch of crazy cats!
   

   

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2. samuelraphael says:

   September 14, 2012 at 1:20 pm

   Max,

   If you’ve got the time between starts, I’d love it if you could take a look at my paper on Lorentzian Space-Time Orbifold Strings before I submit it to Dr. Michio Kaku for peer review.
   

   

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3. deadhead says:

   September 15, 2012 at 5:11 am

   I am soooooo surprised that a Noam Chomsky post has only garnered two comments after two days!
   

   

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4. s.pinker says:

   September 18, 2012 at 2:20 am

   Odd in the sense of scherzer’s strikeouts are anything but a minimalist application, thereby enhancing his clear position in favor of linguistic determinism and the lack of a winning instinct
   

   

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