Comments on: Noam Chomsky Remains Useless http://www.standardsandgrudges.com/2006/03/30/noam-chomsky-remains-useless Politics, punk rock and defamation of character, from Madison, Wisconsin. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:57:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Shane Wealti http://www.standardsandgrudges.com/2006/03/30/noam-chomsky-remains-useless/comment-page-1#comment-226 Shane Wealti Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:45:40 +0000 http://www.standardsandgrudges.com/2006/03/30/noam-chomsky-remains-useless#comment-226 Ok, well in that case, yeah I would probably agree with that. I can't say that I can think of anything that he has done recently that has been as groundbreaking as the theory of generative grammar. Kudos on the 80's reference! Ok, well in that case, yeah I would probably agree with that. I can’t say that I can think of anything that he has done recently that has been as groundbreaking as the theory of generative grammar. Kudos on the 80’s reference!

]]> By: Steven A. Stehling http://www.standardsandgrudges.com/2006/03/30/noam-chomsky-remains-useless/comment-page-1#comment-225 Steven A. Stehling Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:44:29 +0000 http://www.standardsandgrudges.com/2006/03/30/noam-chomsky-remains-useless#comment-225 Noam once had a use. He's kinda like the Corey Feldman of the linguistic world. He did a few great things, then he became stagnant and useless and hasn't done anything worth a damn in years. I was trying to discover the origin of a particular phrase. Luckily someone had already done the research and I found the document on the internet. Noam once had a use. He’s kinda like the Corey Feldman of the linguistic world. He did a few great things, then he became stagnant and useless and hasn’t done anything worth a damn in years.

I was trying to discover the origin of a particular phrase. Luckily someone had already done the research and I found the document on the internet.

]]> By: Shane Wealti http://www.standardsandgrudges.com/2006/03/30/noam-chomsky-remains-useless/comment-page-1#comment-224 Shane Wealti Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:43:09 +0000 http://www.standardsandgrudges.com/2006/03/30/noam-chomsky-remains-useless#comment-224 I'm not sure what you mean by this post but there aren't many people who don't think that Noam Chomsky is one of the major contributors to the study of linguistics as we know it today. For example, Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, often considered to be the most significant contribution to the field of theoretical linguistics in the 20th century. (From Wikipedia) You may not have a use for the theory of generative grammar but it is very useful for people doing research in computational linguistics because it allows for the generation of a set of recursive rules that say whether or not a sentence is well formed. I’m not sure what you mean by this post but there aren’t many people who don’t think that Noam Chomsky is one of the major contributors to the study of linguistics as we know it today.

For example, Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, often considered to be the most significant contribution to the field of theoretical linguistics in the 20th century. (From Wikipedia)

You may not have a use for the theory of generative grammar but it is very useful for people doing research in computational linguistics because it allows for the generation of a set of recursive rules that say whether or not a sentence is well formed.

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