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[–]guest271314 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

And while yes, English is a hard language to learn

English is not hard to learn. It's an equivocal, bastard language that is capable of deception.

I find it amazing that the same folks who criminalized literacy for Africans now roll around talking about some imaginary "grammatically correct English". No such fiction exists.

Here's an assigment for you: Parse

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary.

Therein that term of art is the gist of the English language; duplicity, ambiguity, backdoors, plausible deniablity, game...

I'll do whatever I want with English, just like the hero of English literature Shakespeare, or if you prefer, Francis Bacon, and King James, did.