This seems weirdly asymmetric: the same intuition that forms sentences also recognizes some of the sentences it hears as incorrect. In the former activity it’

This seems weirdly asymmetric: the same intuition that forms sentences also recognizes some of the sentences it hears as incorrect. In the former activity it’s always right but in the latter it’s always wrong? What’s happening when I identify a mistake while proofreading my own writing or listening to a recording of my own speech? When I can’t figure out how to make a sentence work because none of the ways I can think to phrase it sound good? I’d totally believe that the workings of this recognizer are too slippery to conveniently model and study. But I can’t believe that it doesn’t exist or is completely personal. There are definitely communities with broad alignment on some intelligible sentences being good and others being bad.