How can it be that all the human languages form logical grammar structures without anyone defining them from the first place?

Question

It seems like grammar rules just form up on their own and no language is a “mess”, how can it be?

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Answer 1

English is absolutely a hot mess. In college we used to joke that English is the language that mugs other languages in a dark alley and steals any spare vocabulary XD

Jokes aside, Sentence structure and grammar are determined by the language. Anything sounds weird and foreign to you in your own native tongue. For example, I believe in russian the sentence “Throw dad’s hat down the stairs” is literally translated as “Throw it down the stairs, to Papa, his hat.” All the same content, different order.