Re: Why grammar is so complex a subject

Gary Shannon wrote:

> I think I've finally figured out why grammar is so
> complex. It's because it's an artificial attempt to
> discover "rules" in what is really a monsterous
> collection of exceptions. There ARE no rules; only
> exceptions! Tens of thousands of unique patterns of
> words learned by rote which, in reality, have no
> underlying theoretical reason for existing other than
> generations of acquired habits passed down with a bit
> of alteration and streamlining from one generation to
> the next.
The rules of grammar are the patterns of neural networks.  As
such they are complicated, individual, and three-dimensional (at
least).

--
Jefferson
http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wilson63/rpg/