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But if language exemplifies the human capacity for internalizing grammatical conventions, then my moment of rule-breaking does not in fact expose some ungrammatical first nature.—Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025 Editor’s Note: Please be mindful that this transcript does not go through our standard editorial process and may contain inaccuracies and grammatical errors.—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 2025 New research shows that wherever human populations mix, their languages blend as well
When speakers of different languages meet, their words, sounds and even grammatical structures mingle in surprising ways.—Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2025 Editor’s Note: Transcriptions of episodes of the Outside Podcast are created with a mix of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain some grammatical errors or slight deviations from the audio.—Outside Online, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grammatical
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