Can grammar hold the world together or has its power been usurped by AI?

Like Shakespeare I went to a grammar school. I didn’t stop to think deeply about why grammar schools were called grammar schools, but I did learn grammar at school. Now I learn with the help of AI that grammar schools were founded in the 16th century to teach not English but Latin, which was regarded as the fundamental “grammar” of the time and essential for academic, religious, and political education. Controversially I gave up Latin at school and switched to geography. Why, I stupidly thought, waste time learning a dead language? It’s a decision I’ve regretted. https://richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2016/07/29/why-i-regret-not-learning-latin/ Although I enjoyed learning grammar and think it important, I can’t say that I lusted after it. But Dr Ferdinand Draxler MBE, FRSA, the hero of Howl, Howard Jacobson’s comic book about being a Jew in Britain today, does. He writes to his daughter, who has joined pro-Palestine marches and turned against her Jewish father: “I lusted after the rigid…