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I'll bet a lot of them aren't even rules, just conventions. I mean, there might not be a governing intelligent abstraction there. Just inertia.

• singlow 5y ago
  Every grammar rule is a convention by definition.
  • swayvil 5y ago
    Pedantically put.
    • codeulike 5y ago
      Its true though, language is "open-source", and the conventions/rules change over time