Pinker

Pinker begins by saying that humans are unique in how we communicate, because nothing else in the known world has the power of speech, and how scientists believe this is improbable. He goes on to question how one can reconcile this, the rules that may or may not be required. He continues on by giving a brief history of how language mavenism began. I was quite fascinated with his arguments, and how much more clear his message was conveyed than the other 'authorities' we have read so far this semester. Unfortunately, one of those people, David Foster Wallace, took his life over the weekend. I blame myself for backing up one of our classmates in saying he was giving one of his contemporaries intellectual fellatio. Now, I obviously am not ACTUALLY to blame, but still, the speaking ill of the dead thing.