From: etaonsh
Message: 1010
Date: 2003-01-15
> etaonsh wrote:"Peter
> >
> > --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com,
> > T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>wrote:
> > > etaonsh wrote:when
> > > >
> > > > To me, Chomsky is the genius
> > behind
> > > > the coining of the word
> > > > 'psycholinguistics' and the
> > phrase
> > >
> > > Wrong. It was in use by 1952,
> > Chomsky was still doing math andnot
> > > hadn't even reconceptualized
> > himself as a linguist.
> > >
> > I can accept what you say (even
> > without evidence, e.g., of the
> > actual originator) but is there
>Osgood, presumably reporting a
> There's a 1952 book edited by
> held a year or so before that.geniuses
>
> > a danger of important concepts
> > 'getting lost' without the
> > to spotlight them? Marx didn'tcoin
> > words like 'capitalism' andimportant
> > 'communism,' after all. An
> > concept like 'manufacturedget
> > consensus' could, conceivably,
> > lost unless someone writes astudy
> > on it. 'Psycholingustics' willnot
> > achieve its potential untilsomeone
> > opens a department under thatname.
>the population of American
> You don't seem to be too aware of
> universities?Not since the days I was 'at school'
>
>to
> > > BTW your posts are _very_ hard
> > read -- can you do somethingabout
> > > your line length, and also putpassing a
> > spaces before and after your
> > interspersed
> > > comments?
> > >
> > Yes, but it might involve
> > blonde gorgon in charge of anBut it's raining & I'll miss
> > internet cafe.
>
> Then do so.
>
>Both
> > > > 'manufactured consensus.'
>his phrase is "manufactured
> You had it right the first time --
>My Engine Search flunked, somewhat,
>Richard Comaish