noam_chomsky epitome of incomprehensibility My semantics prof today was talking about working on a project with Chomsky. (Not showing off or anything, of course!) He claimed the man could read two pages of a dense academic text in a second, and then summarize it afterwards. And point out the flaws. I mentioned some of this to Dad later, wondering out loud, "Chomsky was famous by then, so what's if he was having a bit of fun with his reputation and was sort of trolling the teacher? Like, he'd already read whatever book and was just pretending to go through it that fast? Or do you think he actually could?" Dad's opinion: no, it probably wasn't a prank. Possibly Prof. Bale was exaggerating, but he (my dad) had a colleague who'd worked as a health scientist researcher before. He had to read several academic papers a day, so he'd developed methods of skimming them for the important points. So Dad figured that's what Chomsky was doing. 221110 what's it to you? who go blather from