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From: exxdgdc@bath.ac.uk (Douglas Clark)
Subject: Re: Book Review - The Language Instinct (Pinker)
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References: <4lmi16$191@morrow.stanford.edu> <DqFBDp.596.B.ss1@bath.ac.uk> <rte-2604961003320001@mac-118.lz.att.com> <DqHC64.A2C.B.ss1@bath.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 17:25:47 GMT
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In the referenced article, exxdgdc@bath.ac.uk (Douglas Clark) writes:
>In the referenced article, rte@elmo.lz.att.com (Ralph T. Edwards) writes:
>>In article <DqFBDp.596.B.ss1@bath.ac.uk>, exxdgdc@bath.ac.uk (Douglas
>>Clark) wrote:
>>
>>> Just let me say that I liked the book very much but was surprised
>>> that it was felt necessary to restate Chomsky's ideas.
>>
>>Surely you're not saying that Chomsky's ideas are easily accessible to the
>>average reader without restating.  Or have I missed British irony again?
>>
>>-- 
>>R.T.Edwards rte@elmo.att.com 908 576-3031
>
>
>My thought when I read the book was `But I already know this!'.
>-- 


I should have added that these ideas need to be demonstrated
to the younger generation. I grew up with them.

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