Those rules too exhibit cross-language conceptual shear. For example, English doesn't really have an equivalent of Latin's subjunctive mood, and our clause boun

Those rules too exhibit cross-language conceptual shear. For example, English doesn't really have an equivalent of Latin's subjunctive mood, and our clause boundary system is way weaker. We use punctuation marks in a way that the Romans didn't (they used punctuation words in a much more systematic way than we do). Greek has a separate grammatical number for pairs of things as opposed to our singular and plural. Those rules, in addition to the individual words (perhaps) bespeak a different way of conceptualizing the world.