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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$191@morrow.stanford.edu> <4lnumg$ofo@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> <DqFBDp.596.B.ss1@bath.ac.uk> <rte-2604961003320001@mac-118.lz.att.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 17:20:28 GMT
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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!'.
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