[ultimate_robber_baron]

I forgot to mention that that "Gene Expression" website included a comment from a poster about what people have said on Free Republic:

"one of the freepers says that they aren't too impressed by linguists. you know what impressed me about lingustics? indo-europeanologists figured out what an indo-european language would look like extrapolating from latin, greek, sanskrit, etc. the problem of course was that the oldest indo-european language recorded was classical era."
--razib

Please keep the comments comin'! =)

[js1138]

Please keep the comments comin'! =)

I have tried to give Chompsky credit where it is due and point out where I think his theory is limited. So far no one else has spoken to this.

Shouldn't linguistics be dealing with human language rather than computer languages? Shouldn't it address the problem of translation and the problem of meaning?

[AmishDude]

one of the freepers says that they aren't too impressed by linguists

Tell them the FReeper's name is AmishDude. And he's still not impressed. On the academic food chain, they're still herbavores.