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1.) They are picked up by native speakers without formal education or instruction.

2.) They are arbitrary (a word for something is just a label, with no special connection to what it denotes)

3.) They have a grammar which determines which linguistic combinations are permitted/meaningful and which are forbidden/meaningless.

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