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Unlike dead languages, living languages actually have no rules.
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Living languages do have rules — phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and discourse patterns — but those rules are dynamic, variable across dialects and communities, and change over time. The notion that living languages have "no rules" confuses prescriptive judgments (what people say should be correct) with descriptive reality (how people actually speak). Dead languages also have rules (we reconstruct them from texts), though they may appear more fixed because fewer native speakers remain and the evidence is limited.
Living languages do have rules — phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and discourse patterns — but those rules are dynamic, variable across dialects and communities, and change over time. The notion that living languages have "no rules" confuses prescriptive judgments (what people say should be correct) with descriptive reality (how people actually speak). Dead languages also have rules (we reconstruct them from texts), though they may appear more fixed because fewer native speakers remain and the evidence is limited.
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