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Originally posted by Lira I'm going explain it to you in Samuel L. Jacksonese so you can understand why that's actually kind of cool: It motherfuckingly shows other motherfucking animals in the motherfucking Animal Motherfucker Kingdom can motherfucking speak, and we're not so ******fucking special in this mother! It tells loads about our mind as well.

I've had blisters that were more useful than that research.

Admit it, Lira. The humanities as a whole are a pyramid scheme. People study something lame, often pay their PhD themselves, and in the end the one thing they can do with it is stay in university and teach the very same thing to younger students.

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Humanities are useless to those who are uninterested in them.

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Originally posted by Meat187 I've had blisters that were more useful than that research. Admit it, Lira. The humanities as a whole are a pyramid scheme. People study something lame, often pay their PhD themselves, and in the end the one thing they can do with it is stay in university and teach the very same thing to younger students.

Not at all. Firstly, the government pays me to study (I still can't understand why in the US it's the other way around), and the knowledge produced often contributes to areas outside the humanities. For example, Chomsky's formal grammar made several contributions to computer science - so much so that a friend of mine, a computer engineer, said he had one discipline in which he had to read Noam's books, so it's not just an indirect contribution.

As for the person who inspired Chomsky, he was a philosopher whose contributions in the human sciences I'm sure I don't need to enumerate (Descartes).

So many languages. so little time.

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Originally posted by Vector A So many languages. so little time.

Not really, you're always quitting before you even start studying them... so it's possible to quit your studies in all catalogued languaged during your lifetime

(Jokes aside, study all the languages! )

Hey, I haven't quit just yet.

And don't you dare quitting!

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Originally posted by Lira Not at all. Firstly, the government pays me to study (I still can't understand why in the US it's the other way around), and the knowledge produced often contributes to areas outside the humanities. For example, Chomsky's formal grammar made several contributions to computer science - so much so that a friend of mine, a computer engineer, said he had one discipline in which he had to read Noam's books, so it's not just an indirect contribution. As for the person who inspired Chomsky, he was a philosopher whose contributions in the human sciences I'm sure I don't need to enumerate (Descartes).

Err, you do know that I'm saying stuff like that to provoke you and don't mean it, right? I'm asking cause you feel the ridiculous need to correct every single silly claim I make.





That being said, for every single linguist who has actually contributed to a useful field there's surely a dozen who spend their life teaching it. Same for other humanities. So my claim that they are a pyramid scheme still stands.

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Originally posted by Meat187 Err, you do know that I'm saying stuff like that to provoke you and don't mean it, right? I'm asking cause you feel the ridiculous need to correct every single silly claim I make.

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quote: Originally posted by Meat187 Oh for god's sake, Lira. Please stop trolling me by always taking the opposite opinion, no matter how stupid and ridiculous it is. It's getting childish, really. quote: Originally posted by Lira Pot, kettle?

What makes you think I'm not having fun with this as well?

Actually, I'm about to post a thread about your sly tactics... you almost got me killed the day before yesterday

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Originally posted by Meat187 That being said, for every single linguist who has actually contributed to a useful field there's surely a dozen who spend their life teaching it. Same for other humanities. So my claim that they are a pyramid scheme still stands.

Now that's something I must agree with

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Originally posted by Lira you almost got me killed the day before yesterday

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Originally posted by Lira you almost got me killed

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Originally posted by Lira almost

Failure.

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Originally posted by Lira you almost got me killed the day before yesterday

I warned you about driving while listening to Para Para! Your own fault if you don't listen.

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