The Hard Problem

Noam Chomsky, the professor emeritus of linguistics at MIT, is something of an iconoclast of traditional views. A controversial yet respected member of the linguistic intelligentsia, Prof. Chomsky has amassed critics and supporters alike, but …

A Word is a Word

There is a scene in the animated movie Abominable where the teenager Yi along with her buddies takes the lost lil’ Yeti across China to his home in Mount Everest. It was interesting to see …