> And yet, almost everybody is easily able to work them out. Even though 
> most people don't conciously know what the rules of grammar are, they 
> manage to learn and apply them!
>
> (For example, ask some random person on the street if "I are slept" is 
> correct English, they will almost certainly tell you it's wrong. Far fewer 
> people will be able to explain *why* it's wrong.)
>
> That's really mental...

That's because the human brain is much faster at pick'n'mix from a huge look 
up table than following grammar rules to form phrases.

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