[TomSmedley]

To be honest, I've never been impressed with linguistics in the first place and the fact that Chomsky was supposed to have been the greatest of them was to me roughly equivalent to being the tallest dwarf. I had never realized his theories were so suspect as well.

At this point in history, field linguistics is the one and only endeavor in which a Christian organization (Wycliffe Associates) is recognized as being the best in the world.

[cookcounty]

"At this point in history, field linguistics is the one and only endeavor in which a Christian organization (Wycliffe Associates) is recognized as being the best in the world."

Ironically, it's the evangelicals (through Wycliffe and SIL), who are leading the world in the effort to collect, catalogue, and "save" the diversity of languages (and hence, cultures) in the world. This always strikes my funnybone.