Chomsky support for Khmer Rouge (Usenet debate, Sep 98, 1/5)

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My original text contained this error (italicized):

As Nathen Folkert, a supporter of Prof. Chomsky, pointed out, there is no Nobel Prize in linguistics. I presumably confabulated a "Nobel Prize" with some other distinction Prof. Chomsky had earned in linguistics.

As would be made even clearer in a follow-up post, Mr. Folkert wished to make an issue of my association of "ambiguity and deniability" with the science of linguistics. He has a point -- attorneys, public-relations consultants, and professors in some other social sciences can also study "ambiguity and deniability" with intellectual rigor. Nevertheless, in Prof. Chomsky's case, it is fair editorial comment.


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