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you may be correct about table manners but i have to say i also suspect that avoiding the spraying of breadcrumbs in the gf's face and any accidental elbowing of gran off her chair may also have been a factor in their development
just as the facilitating of clear mutual comprehension could have been what the ancients, those sages who dreamt of a Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land, had in mind when they decided that having tricky, complicated, hard-to-remember grammar rules might work better than, say, communicating via tongue clicks and announcing the end of sentences by shouting bumbaclot