Talk:Cartesian linguistics

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The main "Port Royal" article doesn't mention or link to any Port Royal Grammar, but there is an article on Port-Royal Logic? Is the Logic the same book as the Grammar? AnonMoos (talk) 08:33, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

No, both are by Antoine Arnauld, but the grammar was co-written with fr:Claude Lancelot and the logic with Pierre Nicole. Srnec (talk) 05:11, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

This is an incredibly poorly written article

I've tried to clean up some of the muddiest sections. As it stood, this article made too much use of the passive voice, to the extent that it was often impossible to figure out who the agent was, and used bloated and strange expressions like "authors interested in rationalist thought" -- presumably proponents or exponents of rationalism.

The article as originally written was extremely favourable to Chomsky, which is perhaps why so much of it sounds like it is uncritically supporting Chomsky's viewpoint. (A few expressions like "according to Chomsky" and "the book's argument is that" would have helped distance the article from Chomsky's own views.)

The attempt at simplifying the contorted language may have had the side effect of oversimplifying the article itself. Please don't hesitate to fix any errors -- but please don't reinstate the original bloated and incomprehensible language of the article.

Bathrobe (talk) 05:43, 11 October 2022 (UTC)