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Chomsky. A statement by scientific collaborators

Posted by George Brennan <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=George+Brennan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 16, 2024, 11:47 am

How did Chomsky find time to do his day job - let alone everything else. Apparently he was proposing a novel theory of language in his nineties. His friends here say things they think should be perfectly obvious - "except to British journalists"
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Re: Chomsky. A statement by scientific collaborators

Posted by Mark Doran <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Mark+Doran+66' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 16, 2024, 4:50 pm, in reply to "Chomsky. A statement by scientific collaborators"

"How did Chomsky find time to do his day job - let alone everything else"...?

-- When I used to email him, a couple of decades ago, I don't think there was a single occasion when he didn't reply *the same day*...

Amazing. Genuinely.

Mark D.

Re: Chomsky. A statement by scientific collaborators

Posted by Morrissey <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Morrissey' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 16, 2024, 5:27 pm, in reply to "Re: Chomsky. A statement by scientific collaborators"

Valeria Chomsky told The Associated Press that her 95-year-old husband—a laureate professor at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)—is currently in a São Paulo hospital. She took him there on an ambulance jet with two nurses after he was able to travel from the United States following his June 2023 stroke.

Chomsky told Folha de São Paulo that although her husband has difficulty speaking and the right side of his body is numb from the stroke, he follows the news and "when he sees images of the war in Gaza, he raises his left arm in a gesture of lament and anger." She said his condition has improved significantly, and he is seeing a neurologist, speech therapist, and pulmonologist daily.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/is-noam-chomsky-ill

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