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Natural languages are kinda weird about this because most people don't remember their rules as rules, they learn by example, by finding patterns and kinda extrapolating them.

English is a foreign language to me. But I somehow managed to learn it without learning the rules. I can say things correctly-ish without being able to explain why I used this particular grammar.



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