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Punctuation is important, but my knowledge of punctuation is not the same sort of thing as my knowledge of how to produce and comprehend utterances - that is, my knowledge that tells me that "I explained the problem to him" is an English sentence, and "*explained problem the him I to" is not.
If "grammar" simply means "that which causes you to choke on a text", then you have to conclude that languages with no writing system have no grammar. Don't you?Originally Posted By: BranShea
Apparently in British English they count orthography in, as seen in Pummel's comments.
Pullum is American. It's not about regional dialects, it's that different linguists use different definitions.
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