Pinker wins, this time
An email from Bailey:
I heard Steven Pinker on NPR! Remind me to tell you about it (unless my excitement is not mutual). I wanted to call in and say “thanks so much for making linguistics accessible and interesting to us laypeople, I love the work that you do; my boyfriend recently received his Master’s in linguistics, but the stuff he works on is syntax in Mandarin Chinese, and it’s completely impenetrable.” But I didn’t. <3
Alas, this is the life I live.
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10 月 16th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Hey Mitcho!
I heard the Pinker clip, too…and get this, Neil Cohn just met Chomsky, and asked him something along the lines of, “I want to start my own field, just like you did. So - how did you do that?”
—peach
10 月 18th, 2007 at 7:20 am
He gave a talk at the Minneapolis central library a day or two before that too, but they didn’t have nearly enough seats at the event for the legions of Pinker fans and extra-credit-minded high schoolers that showed up, and I wasn’t able to get in. Oh, the cruelty of life!