>But to suggest that we should skip the rules and instead try to build up intuition seems rather wrong-headed to me. The problem with natural languages, and es

>But to suggest that we should skip the rules and instead try to build up intuition seems rather wrong-headed to me. The problem with natural languages, and especially english, is that there aren't really any formal rules as there are in well-defined maths like algebras. If there are no rules, how can you skip them?