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by famouswaffles 453 days ago
My point is that Grammar is to language what Newton was to gravity i.e useful fiction that works well enough for most scenarios, not that language has no structure.

The first 5 minutes of this video do good job of explaining what i'm getting at - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNJDH0eogAw

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Wow a 1 hour video by some crank, guess all of linguistics and cognitive science has been a waste of time.
I said you need only watch the first 5 minutes to see what I was getting at.

You would also think emphasizing grammar's usefulness would make it plain that I do not think it is a waste of time.