Recent content by Iggy

Saying that being a linguist helps one to write books is no less than as saying that being an artist, a biker or a street cleaner does the same. It is a purely gratuitously prose that perhaps aims at an insult ( and fails to accomplish the task if so). There are many "decent" attempts to use...

Hopefully I am not misunderstanding you and is concluding you think linguistic is about grammar and syntax and etymology etc. It is more than that. It is about why and how our language come to be. Linguistics do write books but their excellence at linguistics is not a creative aspect of book...

First, Chomksy is the person who give cognitive science is sea legs and his ideas has transformed everything from artificial intelligence to theories about the mind. His principal idea is easily proved. It states that the basic design of language is innate, ie it is an instinct. At its...

Dany is clearly not going about without thinking. Since taking her vengeance on the witch she has come unto her own. Her dragons are in their teenage years and will give her problems as we already see. However, they are her children and even though capricious in nature, myth tells us dragons are...

The books tell you that they are not sequential. The events of Storm of Swords and A feast For Crows occur in the same time frame. Hopefully he will finish within the next couple of years and not follow his habit of long gaps between books. I also have confidence the Series can end it for us if...

I do not know where you are going with the statement I highlighted above. That is a minefield of your own creation. I was speaking to the casual lumping of hundreds of distinct cultural peoples into a convenient umbrella label, "Native Americans" for example, to forge generalized conclusions...

I think you are viewing these cultures as isolated cultures. I am sure the were lots of borrowing going on. One can Mesopotamia give lots to the Egyptians and what came to be the Jews. These cultures did not die. They live in all of us As The Romans ( a more visible progenitor) since we...

They are "just so stories" because that is what they are and inevitably racism and pseudo science tumble into place because they go together. I see your nym is Adam? I will guess it is because of anglo origins. Well, a few thousand years before the name of any Englishman ( or what came to be...

What a completely moronic statement! What else can one say to the above....you happen to know only one Indian who to you is erudite and quick witted so your conclusion is they are mentally or psychologically slow in general! Could it be your insufficient sample size? It is more likely your...