Genetically Similar

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    UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of this faculty as a ‘language acquisition device,’ an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.
    Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)

    Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)