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You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.
Noam ChomskyColorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Noam ChomskySyntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
John Steinbeck