Concerning WALS - Bees, Bats, Butterflies

[dharv at mail.optusnet.com.au]

At 10:48 PM -0500 9/11/08, Salinas17 at aol.com wrote:
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>  we need a Copernicus, not a Chomsky or a Greenberg.

A reminder that it was Kepler who formulated the planetary laws, and 
a comment that Chomsky has in common with Galileo a 
discipline-changing body of work (subsequently elevated into a theory 
of everything). Both also had clashes with authority although of a 
rather different kind. Maybe we haven't yet had our Darwin or 
Einstein but to be a Galileo is not to be sniffed at.
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