Who Invented Email? Just Ask…Noam Chomsky

Re:Who Invented Email? Just Ask…Noam Chomsky by yummyfajitas on Saturday June 16, 2012 @11:26AM (#4120831)

I'm aware of Chomsky's political proclivities, but this is purely a debate over the definition of "email". The nature of the actual systems invented is not in dispute, merely what to call them.

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Re:Who Invented Email? Just Ask…Noam Chomsky by sashahart on Saturday June 16, 2012 @02:52PM (#4121312)

You said he was a linguist. I said that he hasn't done a lot in linguistics for many years now, which is true. I wasn't picking on Chomsky for being political.

Even much of his work in linguistics was polemics - the famous review of Verbal Behavior is pure polemics.

edit: and in interviews Chomsky has said that he felt a lot of this work had an essentially political purpose - talking about some nexus between Continental-style rationalism and opposition to totalitarianism, with which he associated the behaviorists

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