Noam Chomsky: University of Connecticut Commencement Speech - Part 3 (1999)

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[GreenmeGo]

Nice delivery

[ihategomez]

who knew that such a great person was being birthed at this moment in time! hyaha my b-day exact

[chinopisces]

@EarlyLAPunk: I doubt you've graduated.

[sgrancharova]

@tonybonez Prof. Chomsky is interested and has contributed to unravelling the mechanisms which make human language possible. He postulates that the language faculty is genetically endowed and that is why we can learn a language very quickly no matter that we are exposed to the deficient and sometimes incorrect linguistic performance of our parents. A child doesn't have to hear and learn all sentences that s/he will eventually use in life because all l-ges have underlying universal principles.

[EarlyLAPunk]

gripping! inspiring to graduates. not

[tonybonez]

@tokotokotoko3

Please tell me---I have no idea what he is talking about, or why?!?!?

[tokotokotoko3]

After watching it 10 times, I think I roughly get what he's talking about. Very inspiring.

[malezgerd]

@spacerumsfeld yeah, too serious of an academic speech for people waiting to party in their graduation.

Nevertheless, I find the talk very intriguing as well. Brain, intelligence and ...

[spacerumsfeld]

The boredom is practically oozing out of the group in the back. I found the talk very interesting, anyway.

[2Majesties]

Thanks, Noam...