Has Literature R Us finally hit bottom? Well, yes, for now, because I really have no idea as to whether the good doctor and founder/inventor of modern linguistics is now or ever has been an efficacious practitioner of oral sex, but, well, it’s a funny lead, and if it’s funny, it leads. So let me…
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Noam Chomsky explains it all for you—why standardized testing is bad
The Progressive Magazine has posted this interview with Noam Chomsky, in which the founder of modern linguistics explains why standardized testing in k-12 education is bad. According to Chomsky “tests that determine what’s going to happen to students and what’s going to happen to teachers is guaranteed to destroy any meaningful educational process.” Tests give…
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously, don’t they?
“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” is Noam Chomsky’s classic example of a grammatical sentence that doesn’t compute, his way of demonstrating that the human brain processes linguistic information in several ways at the same time. But if we fiddle with Chomsky’s sentence, we can show that the English language is perhaps more flexible than is…