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A number of contemporary liguistics ( Pullum, Harris, Postal,Levine, Sampson,Everett) have spoken out against Chomsky for dogmatism and missconduct. Harris covers this in his book, the Linguistic wars, in which he documents extensive evidence for a personal campaign against his students opposing deep grammar ( see Linguistics wars) by neglecting their reserach and actively trying to bar the from prominent academic discourse. I think this should not be neglected, particularly in the context of Dan Dan veretts research into Piraha Langauge and culture which led to a campaign that temporarily banned him from visiting the piraha and and which resulted in Chomsky calling him a Charlatan ( see talk given by Pullum at MIT and Geoff Pullum. 24.134.36.65 (talk) 21:47, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Innuendo has no place here. You're offering your personal interpretations of events and writings, which are never relevant to Wikipedia. [This is certainly correct.] As you note, there is already an article about the subject ... if you have NPOV additions or corrections supported by reliable sources, you can make them there. It's important to be aware that the dispute you are referring to is an academic one (see, e.g., https://inference-review.com/letter/a-dozen-years-of-misunderstanding), and so reference to it should be made at Linguistic wars, not cast as personal attacks on Chomsky on his page. (And the POV personal attacks on Chomsky at Geoff Pullum are bad enough ... they certainly shouldn't be dragged into this article.) BTW, I see that most of the contributions by your IP address have been vandalism. Please don't follow that path. 2600:8802:5913:1700:F975:9572:32C0:993F (talk) 09:32, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
After the lead is over, Noam Chomsky's contemporary and early-modern influences and effects were made known. It then says he developed an "early" interest in anarchism, highlighting his time period from acquiring them from alternative book stores. There is no citation at the end of that premise or statement so I ask, is the article referring to "independent" book stores or is the proper terminology "alternative?" What are alternative book stores and how does relate to his early interest in anarchism? WikiStarpluck (talk) 19:22, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The article body is more specific, describing the bookstores as left-wing and anarchist. I think whoever wrote "alternative bookstores" meant alternative as "relating to behavior that is considered unconventional and is often seen as a challenge to traditional norms" (from Google). Yue🌙20:14, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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