And most linguists would argue "Yes," that languages are highly constrained in how they do things.

大多数语言学家们都会回答"是的",语言在很大程度上依赖于语法规则的使用

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By the way, I'm going to leave also to your sections the strange confusion that ensues in taking a rhetorical device, metonymy, and making it synonymous with grammar on the axis of combination.

另外，我还将把奇怪的困惑留给你们思考,这个困惑随着使用修辞学策略和转喻而产生，并使得它在结合轴上与语法有着同样的意思。

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Syntax is a more technical term but it means the same thing as grammar.

这里说的语法是更加专业的术语,在意义上和平时说的语法是一样的

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And even though the syntax, the characters you are about to see on the screen and in programs today onward is a little more arcane, it's a little uglier looking, you've got semicolons and parentheses and fairly arcane syntax, realize that at the end of the day these are just arbitrary human conventions, the ideas are identical to this thing here.

可能你在屏幕上，编程中见识到的,语法，字符看起来非常晦涩难懂,甚至可以说是丑陋，像什么分号啊,括号啊等等，还有一些难七八糟的语法，但是到了最后，你会发现,这些都不过是一些人为约定而已，而蕴含在里面的编程思想跟这个例子并无二致。

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