I have no interest in people who speak within an academic context that has no relation to our actual experience of the world. Somehow he is so boring that while I can understand every word and sentence he uses none of it adds up to any greater understanding or makes any sense to me at all. Am I alone or ignorant in this perception? He seems to be filling his thesis with irrelevant references rather than attempting to really communicate as effectively as possible.
Though I do have to say that I laughed untill I cried at 19:17, where Chomsky gets jumbled and glithcy in his own speech. I do not intend to mock. I was simply laughing at how humans sometimes glitch like that. It has got to be the funniest speech blunders I have ever seen. You start analizing it through repeated viewing and you start noticing the cute but awkward hand waving he does. Why do people do that? :P As if it helped...
@watayapupuya *sigh* And I thought I had made the humour in my comment clear. As I said, I do not intend to mock what is, of course, a top academic. Nothing was jumbled for me either. I'm a fan of his! I did not type it to deride him. I could have said this about anyone who went through the same curious speech phenomenon. My comment was about that, not about Chomsky as a person or anything he said. If anything, it was to say that not even top academics escape the brain's faults and glitches.
I can't believe I found this. I've been searching youtube for a while for something of chomsky's where he talks about his theories of language acquisition in detail. thank you for uploading this.
Origins and evolution of language is so interesting!
If you're interested in language, programming, Sumerian mythology, thought memes, and science fiction novels, you have to read 'Snow Crash' by Neil Stephenson. That book got me into studying language.
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Right, there are several distinctions I had in mind (I don't feel like writing a linguistics essay at the moment), and as I stated earlier, I had a sense you were being sarcastically short-winded. Chomsky's theories turned linguistics inside-out. People like to trivialize them nowadays, but they were radical and far-seeing in their time.
Fair enough. What makes a word different from any other sound is that a word (printed or spoken) has an arbitrary relation to a meaning. That is, the word "duck" does not need to correspond to anything having to do with aquatic birds at all. The meanings of words are mere conventions, whereas the meaning of a naked girl moaning is inherent and universal.
You may or may not already know this, but your shorter version is not equivalent to his long-winded, "round-about" version.
And besides, your definition contains only the most superficially necessary parts of the real one. After all, one can extract meaning from most sounds (tires screeching, women moaning, etc).
I have a sense you were being sarcastic, and I certainly would hope that's the case.
From what little I have heard him lecture linguistics so far I would agree he has a tendency to be longwinded and get sidetrack, though that does not mean he is boring. In the lecture preceding this titled "The Biolinguistic Turn" you could easily compress the first 45 minutes into 10 with his sprawling delving into the Newtonian and quantum mechanical revolutions in physics, which do not have much to do with linguistics beyond providing potential analogues.
If that's what it's saying which is the meaning and which is the word?
The sentence seems to say that one thing is a more concrete and particular form of the other thing, which is an abstract generality. But neither is a something that "has" a something else, the way a word has meaning.
He's very big on the English neoplatonic philosophers of the 18th century. Or he was.
Time and again I am most astounded by Chomsky's awesome grasp of logic. Thank you uctv, this two part series is one of the true gems I've discovered on youtube.
lol guys, there's no good reason to thumbs down this comment. I doubt Chomsky would hold a grudge if a person was more interested in politics than linguistics.
True, but it might be important to realize that Chomsky's understanding of linguistics has enabled him to develop such an outstanding ability to give clear, logical explanations of world events.
It might be quite succesfully argued that an understanding of the language one speaks is essential to truely following their reasoning and understanding the meaning of what is spoken.
There is no shame. All rabbits know and want to breed, but can hardly ponder about their origin. Monkeys have gone further, but still cant think abstractly. Some people are able and try hard. Its just about statistics.
@TASADNESS sad but true. Intellectual laziness is one of our most dangerous enemies, the more our mind stagnates the less we feel like "disturbing" it.
Great Lecture, thanks for posting. Dr. Chomsky seems to make reference to a lecture he made the day before (or, in any case some time earlier). I was wondering if you might know what that lecture is or possibly even have a copy of it?
he makes it so hard to follow...
kRaZyShAdYbAbY 2 months ago
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thanks for uploading this video! very informative..
adelle0001 3 months ago
WHAT? Chomsky teaches at MIT>???
junior1984able 4 months ago
Noam , I like u !
TheYoutubician 6 months ago
Noam, u beautiful mind!
Betters4Millions 10 months ago
Thank you for sharing!!!!
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I have no interest in people who speak within an academic context that has no relation to our actual experience of the world. Somehow he is so boring that while I can understand every word and sentence he uses none of it adds up to any greater understanding or makes any sense to me at all. Am I alone or ignorant in this perception? He seems to be filling his thesis with irrelevant references rather than attempting to really communicate as effectively as possible.
chriskirk1984 1 year ago
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chriskirk1984 1 year ago
Those were two wonderful talks.
Though I do have to say that I laughed untill I cried at 19:17, where Chomsky gets jumbled and glithcy in his own speech. I do not intend to mock. I was simply laughing at how humans sometimes glitch like that. It has got to be the funniest speech blunders I have ever seen. You start analizing it through repeated viewing and you start noticing the cute but awkward hand waving he does. Why do people do that? :P As if it helped...
Odonus2 1 year ago
@Odonus2
Its your imagination that he blunders and "gets jumbled and "GLITHCY"".You are jumbled.
Nothing was jumbled for me.
watayapupuya 9 months ago
@watayapupuya *sigh* And I thought I had made the humour in my comment clear. As I said, I do not intend to mock what is, of course, a top academic. Nothing was jumbled for me either. I'm a fan of his! I did not type it to deride him. I could have said this about anyone who went through the same curious speech phenomenon. My comment was about that, not about Chomsky as a person or anything he said. If anything, it was to say that not even top academics escape the brain's faults and glitches.
Odonus2 9 months ago
I can't believe I found this. I've been searching youtube for a while for something of chomsky's where he talks about his theories of language acquisition in detail. thank you for uploading this.
mightyafrowhitey 1 year ago
Its wierd hes not saying anything super profound, but just hearing his voice I get ideas... wtf.
twistedbydsign99 1 year ago
@twistedbydsign99 psychologically ingrained profundity.
HolyFerdinand 1 year ago
Please, let's use captions
JAMIDFF 1 year ago
Origins and evolution of language is so interesting!
If you're interested in language, programming, Sumerian mythology, thought memes, and science fiction novels, you have to read 'Snow Crash' by Neil Stephenson. That book got me into studying language.
buckfushes 1 year ago
excellent work!
1888junkteam 2 years ago
where can I find it tranlate it?
jhonick12345678910 2 years ago
I think the video was too short...
samquineyproductions 2 years ago
I feel so stupid. I wish Chomsky didn't have such a droning voice, it's hard to punctuate what he is saying
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sorry but this scares me!!! "in 1908 a lady named sally rusa was in the woods looking for a dog until..." more "in 1908 a lady named sally rusa was in the woods looking for a dog until a ghost came and killed her so if ur reading this u will find a bloody body in your closet hanging there haunting you and will kill you and ur family and if u want to stop this just sends this to 6 videos in 30 mins or this will happen good luck
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PLEASE DONT READ THIS. YOU WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. HOWEVER IF YOU DONT POST THIS COMMENT TO AT LEAST 3 VIDEOS YOU WILL DIE WITHIN 2 DAYS. NOW UV STARTED READIN DIS DUNT STOP THIS IS SO SCARY. SEND THIS OVER TO 5 VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN UR DONE PRESS F6 AND UR CRUSHES NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS. THIS IS SO SCARY BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKs
kavdeman 2 years ago
Right, there are several distinctions I had in mind (I don't feel like writing a linguistics essay at the moment), and as I stated earlier, I had a sense you were being sarcastically short-winded. Chomsky's theories turned linguistics inside-out. People like to trivialize them nowadays, but they were radical and far-seeing in their time.
DanHipp 2 years ago
Fair enough. What makes a word different from any other sound is that a word (printed or spoken) has an arbitrary relation to a meaning. That is, the word "duck" does not need to correspond to anything having to do with aquatic birds at all. The meanings of words are mere conventions, whereas the meaning of a naked girl moaning is inherent and universal.
DanHipp 2 years ago
You may or may not already know this, but your shorter version is not equivalent to his long-winded, "round-about" version.
And besides, your definition contains only the most superficially necessary parts of the real one. After all, one can extract meaning from most sounds (tires screeching, women moaning, etc).
I have a sense you were being sarcastic, and I certainly would hope that's the case.
DanHipp 2 years ago
From what little I have heard him lecture linguistics so far I would agree he has a tendency to be longwinded and get sidetrack, though that does not mean he is boring. In the lecture preceding this titled "The Biolinguistic Turn" you could easily compress the first 45 minutes into 10 with his sprawling delving into the Newtonian and quantum mechanical revolutions in physics, which do not have much to do with linguistics beyond providing potential analogues.
Crowley9 3 years ago
If that's what it's saying which is the meaning and which is the word?
The sentence seems to say that one thing is a more concrete and particular form of the other thing, which is an abstract generality. But neither is a something that "has" a something else, the way a word has meaning.
He's very big on the English neoplatonic philosophers of the 18th century. Or he was.
ProsecuteCheneyEtAl 3 years ago
quite brilliant
neoncrayon 3 years ago
Time and again I am most astounded by Chomsky's awesome grasp of logic. Thank you uctv, this two part series is one of the true gems I've discovered on youtube.
lGnossos 3 years ago 13
I love his political philosophy, but I just don't have any interest in linguistics.
EnduringRain 3 years ago
lol guys, there's no good reason to thumbs down this comment. I doubt Chomsky would hold a grudge if a person was more interested in politics than linguistics.
lGnossos 3 years ago
True, but it might be important to realize that Chomsky's understanding of linguistics has enabled him to develop such an outstanding ability to give clear, logical explanations of world events.
It might be quite succesfully argued that an understanding of the language one speaks is essential to truely following their reasoning and understanding the meaning of what is spoken.
RTAEON 3 years ago
Could not agree more. Bravo and brilliant. Please be a teacher.
BrutusBlackest 1 year ago
593 views! A pornographic clip has over 100 thousand! What a shame!
TASADNESS 4 years ago 8
There is no shame. All rabbits know and want to breed, but can hardly ponder about their origin. Monkeys have gone further, but still cant think abstractly. Some people are able and try hard. Its just about statistics.
MarkoKraguljac 3 years ago 2
@TASADNESS ... watching porn ha? shame on you ! :)))))
entropia34332 1 year ago
@TASADNESS sad but true. Intellectual laziness is one of our most dangerous enemies, the more our mind stagnates the less we feel like "disturbing" it.
Defsolid 1 year ago
@TASADNESS Shut yo face
ApolloPriest 1 year ago
@TASADNESS
Asshole
Betters4Millions 10 months ago
@TASADNESS A pornographic clip? What? Where? Please tell me.
randyfletcher86 8 months ago
Great Lecture, thanks for posting. Dr. Chomsky seems to make reference to a lecture he made the day before (or, in any case some time earlier). I was wondering if you might know what that lecture is or possibly even have a copy of it?
MafcoCinco 4 years ago
If you haven't found it yet, it is the other lecture under the name Language and the Mind Revisited - The biolinguistic turn
kylevarley 4 years ago