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The title is significantly overstated. DLM isn't a language, it is a rule that many languages seem to follow and says nothing about Chompsky.

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It's "Chomsky" of course, but I _really_ like "Chompsky"!

Well there's also this easter egg:

http://left4dead.wikia.com/wiki/Gnome_Chompski

That may be inspired by https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim_Chimpsky

And a famous[1] chimpanzee called Nim Chimpsky![2]

[1] Depends on the social circles you hang out in...

[2] Oblig. Wiki. P. link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim_Chimpsky

Edit: Damn! Someone (literally) beat me to it.

I think the title isn't overstated but awkward in a way that we're all translating it into an overstatement.

Between the quotes and not knowing what a language universal was I assumed they meant a universal language, apparently I'm not alone in this. The authors might write paper on this phenomenon next!

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