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General grammar (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠neither applied logic nor proto-linguistics but the study of verbal order in its relation to the simultaneity it must represent.

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General grammar (n.) paradoxically ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠came in many kinds — French, English, Latin — since it sought not the laws of all languages but how each one articulates thought upon itself.