Louis Proyect wrote:
NY Times, September 22, 2006
A Scholar Is Alive, Actually, and Hungry for Debate
By MARC SANTORA
At a news conference after his spirited address to the United Nations
on Wednesday, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela expressed one regret:
not having met that icon of the American left, the linguist Noam
Chomsky, before his death.
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A few years ago, my psych professor referred to Noam Chomsky in past tense.
I was quick to point out he wasn't dead yet to which the response was
essentially that she wasn't aware because psycho-linguistics wasn't her
field (early childhood development, where the $$$ are).
Noam Chomsky is practicing semantically charged psycho-lingiustics every
time he speaks publicly, slowly... clearly... ...monotone. It can lull
one to sleep (hypnotized really, where the message passes
directly to the subconcious). Apparently it also causes people to
believe he is dead.
Leigh
http://leighm.net/
