Butterfly-collecting: the history of an insult
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Chomsky's barb about butterfly-collecting has echoed in the ears of descriptive linguists for decades, and is sometimes blamed for the withe...
  • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Imagine building a beautiful theory and then one of those darned butterfly collectors finds a counterexample that breaks it. Sounds pretty useful to me.