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On Chomsky

He didn't teach what to think, but he taught me how to think.

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Carl Beijer
Jun 08, 2024
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Chomsky delivering a lecture on linguistics at UMD. Think this was in 2014.

Noam Chomsky isn’t long for this world. Media Lens reports that Chomsky, who is now 95, “suffered a medical event in June” of last year and is now no longer able to communicate. Though age had noticeably slowed down his speech by then, he was still clearly quite sharp; just two m…

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