It's amazing to me how nobody seems to know about the short story "The great automatic grammatizator" by Roald Dahl. Nobody got closer than him. I feel like I should be reading about it all the time and no one seems to have ever heard of it.
“Where?”
“In the ‘word-memory’ section,” he said, epexegetically.
https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1953-dahl-theg...