Noam Chomsky is not a genius. Further proof? A crackpot dictator promoted one of his books on the floor of the United Nations.

Read Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct instead. He makes the case that language is an instinct breed into humans after years of evolution. This contradicts Chomsky’s assertion that language is innate and the same for all humans where differences in languages are accounted for by tweaks to a small set of parameters.

I tend to subscribe to Pinker’s theory. Also, reading Pinker won’t make you puke.