The Cohen Brothers Is a Perfect Mirror of Language

In the cohen brothers everybody is constantly talking past each other over each other not fully understanding what the other person said but responding anyway. Donald Davidson refers to this as getting away with it right we end up like sort of passing the baton to each other in discourse. So Valasianov is like look um you can't actually explain language with respect to these abstract structures which are really just cleaned up from and extracted from the messiness of everyday speech so you've got to be able to explain them both in order to give a coherent doctrine of linguistics.