Tom and Huck and Jim and me and him and grover and tim

[Terrance]

out of a relatively small group of sounds--fewer than a hundred--that
any normal person can learn to produce can be made hundreds of thousands
of words, which in turn can be combined according to the rules of
"grammar" into a virtually endless number of different sentences. All
languages have this complex, many-layered structure. that is what makes
them adequate to the needs of their users. contrary to some popular
impressions, the word and sentence structure of the language of the most
"primitive" people is highly complex. how preposterous is the widespread
notion that the native americans communicated largely by grunts, smoke
signals and sign language. how complex is american sign language.
black-talk, often called ebonics by conservatives, the media, and the
ignorant, has a far more complex "to be" verb than standard english and
is perfectly capable of expressing all manner of complexities. but
people judge one another on the basis of language. if you talk like me,
you be one one of us. if you be talking different, we may be amused, we
may be suspicious. we may think yore ignorant, ill-bred. a major theme
of Twain's american masterpiece, Huckleberry Finn, not to mentions
Pynchon TSI.