Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> According to Wiktionary (which is never wrong), "speaks" is
>
>    "Third-person singular simple present indicative form of 'speak'."
>
> All of which sounds really, really complicated.
>
> In fact, just the other day I was thinking about this. The rules of
> English grammer (and, I presume, every other language on the face on the
> Earth) are very complicated indeed. 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...

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