Q&A: What Makes A Good Writer with Steven Pinker 🖋️ | Intelligence Squared
2023 ж. 5 Ақп.
5 330 Рет қаралды
In this clip from our archive, author Steven Pinker discusses the art of good writing and ways we can learn to improve our own.
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This was brilliant. I love hearing Pinker speak about language. He has a spark in his eye when he does it.
A writer not conforming to trending social sensibilities will have the benefit of excluding the readers outside of his by intended purview.
Nice copy and paste dude!
Pinker omnia vincit.
The person in charge of proof reading Hitler's speeches was a grammar natzy.
What Makes A Good Speaker?
If what you communicate is what the audience receives, understands, and hopefully convinced, you r good speaker. Everything else is jargon and rules centered around it.
@@EldhoseJoseph Whenever I listen to Pinker I am convinced and full of hope.
@@fburton8 I said hopefully, coz it's not a necessary. I can communicate perfectly and audience perfectly receive it, still they can disagree with it, which does not not mean I failed at communication. Not all communication is made for convincing.
Lots of people flaunt the rules these days.
I get what you did there :)
They don't though. They write conversations between the subject and the reader, and while that tends to engage the inner voice, it leads to petty division in topical understandings of a writer's point.
Whether there is THE language is where Chomsky is a great expert. It is sheer dilettantism from Pinker to act as an authority on that particular topic where his knowledge of theoretical linguistics is not even sufficient to understand what Chomsky meant in the quote 🙄
; however, Noam is tired, stale, and antiquated in his philosophical approach to quite every subject he is "solicited" for comment.
@@harmonyqueue He didn’t “comment” on the topic, but wrote hundreds of peer reviewed scientific articles 🙄
Pinker is an excellent writer, but it tends to mask some fairly flimsy and biased moves in his philosophical thinking.