there are a lot of really good comments being made on this post, mostly re: Chomsky’s Eurocentrism, inc. a lot from people of colour being like “UGH YES [revealing anecdote of Chomsky’s terrible influence]”, but also a lot of linguists saying stuff like “universal grammar isn’t stupid and Eurocentric, I know because I expect that when I study [non-European language] it will be quite similar to German, you have to be ready to see the similarities” and “lots of theorists have debunked the debunkings [provides no references]” and “I personally would rather not be seen as Eurocentric, and indeed draw on fragments of many non-European languages to support my analyses” and simultaneously “Chomsky isn’t even a thing anymore, lay off linguistics”
in sum, languages are awesome, linguists are annoying, read the commentary in the reblogs because it’s all either interesting and relevant or illustrative of the tendencies I was railing against
