The number of rules says nothing about the complexity of sentences that can be formed. The game chess also has a low number of rules and the board game Go has even fewer rules. No one would claim that these games are therefore “primitive” or not “real” games. As a matter of fact, a low number of rules has significant advantages as this allows you to formulate highly complex sentences, without being inhibited by arbitrary grammatical rules and exceptions.

 

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