I think learning a language through its grammar is a bit upside-down. It's helpful in the beginning, like a scaffold to construct a building, but ultimately it doesn't stand on its own. Grammar is analytic, not generative. And language is built of music, metaphor, tone, implication, context, and a thousand other elements that reflect our consciousness. One need only listen to an AI-generated voice to hear what language is not.
I think learning a language through its grammar is a bit upside-down. It's helpful in the beginning, like a scaffold to construct a building, but ultimately it doesn't stand on its own. Grammar is analytic, not generative. And language is built of music, metaphor, tone, implication, context, and a thousand other elements that reflect our consciousness. One need only listen to an AI-generated voice to hear what language is not.
This is so so true and so well said, I might quote you on this!