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At the risk of not following the herd, I have to say that I think Mr !@#$% is being a little unfair to Mr 2600. The separation between Chomsky and Sapir-Whorff - who are two seperate people whose position is bolstered by their inadvertant cohesion - for me is that Chomsky is aware of, and indebted to, Wittgenstein's latter period; his is a highly politicised awareness of language; the Sapir-Whorff hypothesis is only political in so far as it's prescriptive, and is thus fascististic. For those slightly less aware, 'fascist' is not a negative term in all cases, but I'd be surprised if I had to tell that to two protagonists who've clearly read Nietzsche.
I suppose !#@$ doesn't like the miscegenation of compariring properly scientific with the anthroplogical-linguistic; I think it's entirely legitimate within the realms of simile.
I must now prepare to leave, perhaps I will write at length later? Who knows...
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