Changing the Way We Use Language Can Have a Powerful Impact

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Some temporary political causes seem to assume that the way we use language can have powerful political effects. In te united states, for example, there's attempt to get people to say latinac rather than latina or latina. Do you think that those kinds of linguistic changes can actually have a powerful impact? You sceptical of the impact te likely to have? That's an old story. I'm jewish. The kind of terminology that was used for jews in my childhood would not be used now because of the consequences, the effects that it has. Yes, no. We can argue about particular cases, but the general issue is not in doubt,.You don't go around calling

Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has for many decades been one of the most prominent critics of U.S. foreign policy.

In this week’s conversation, Noam Chomsky and Yascha Mounk discuss the theory of universal grammar, whether identity politics can be left-wing, and how the world should treat an ascendant China.

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