I met Noam Chomsky in graduate school.  I say “met” metaphorically.  His work was required reading for my degree.  He had an idea that language was natural to the human brain, then went about proving it with linguistics–an almost mathematical formulation of how languages

Would you pay to read these blogs?  Don’t gulp. I know the answer.  Recently, a friend interrupted when I started to quote myself.  “You know I don’t read your blogs regularly, don’t you?”   Her confession silenced me the way bird droppings landing on my head might do.�