We are all modernists and beyond.

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In living languages, both semantics and syntax are statistical phenomena, not absolutes.

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I think we have reached the point of heatedly agreeing with each other. Everything you said is something I already believed to be true. I think the only quibble I have with what you said here is "That language has syntax is inherent to the ways humans do language"; I believe that's definitional. There are many forms of communication, but the ones we call "language" are distinguished from other forms by having syntax.