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by huckyaus 3923 days ago
"There is no such thing as a sentence, or a phrase, or a part of speech, or even a "word" — these are all pareidolic fantasies occasioned by glints of sunlight we see on reflected on the surface of the ocean of language; fantasies that we comfort ourselves with when faced with language’s infinite and unknowable variability."

This is a particularly beautiful articulation of the complexity of English (and language in general).