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Thank you for posting this.

Out of curiosity a few weeks ago, I had picked up one of Chomsky's works on linguistics. I couldn't really get what he was saying, but I just figured it was over my head.

I felt it was very complex, but in an artificial way. Almost like the "whole language" taught to some elementary schoolkids, it throws out a lot of sort-of related references to the topic at hand - while being taught thematically related things, they really don't ever get around to making any useful progress as a result.

Anyone can come up with lots of thoughts and words, but his never really struck me in a way that says "that makes sense".