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by EForEndeavour 2066 days ago
> "Never memorize what you can look up."

I can look up all the definitions and grammar rules of English, but without memorizing them, I wouldn't be able to communicate with anyone around me.

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I don't know any of the definitions, grammar rules of English yet I'm still able to effectively communicate with and understand others.
If you are a native speaker of English, you learned those rules over your whole childhood, by example instead of being explicitly taught the rules.
Agreed - I learned examples, not rules.