We watched the first bit of a video from a Google event in which Noam Chomsky answered some questions, the link to the video is here:

YouTube: Authors@Google: Noam Chomsky

After the first couple of introductory minutes, the response to the question about changes in the conception of UG follows, which is what we watched. It’s about 17 minutes long.

After that there are various questions about political topics, but at around minute 50, there is a return to language in the form of a question about whether texting, etc., is ruining English, and Chomsky’s answer.

ALSO: The closed captions do work, but it turns out that I was not connected to the network properly in the classroom. Now that I’m back in my office and plugged in, they’re there. Sorry for not sorting that out in the class itself.