Expert shocked as Trump appears to claim Hitler's theories as his own: 'It was my idea'

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7. I take it to mean parallel conclusions.

In the '60s a Canadian linguist claimed that language learners don't just go from "not fluent" to "fluent," but become fluent by topic and context. You can be good in colloquial, every day language, but not able to discuss turbines or accounting--or be good at those but pointless when it comes to computers or art.

That was his thesis; spun off monographs, articles, he was cited widely for his insightful ideas.

Sadly, his ideas were exactly those of some in the Prague Linguistics Circle from the 1920s and '30s, which he didn't cite at least once nor gave any evidence of knowing about. Why should he? Their publications were in a variety of languages--French, Czech, Russian, German. They all knew all four, so it didn't matter; but unless you know all four, it's not a cohesive body of work.

Oh, and he didn't use their words the exact same categories.

He re-invented the wheel.