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Marlon James

Books and Authors

CHAPTER

The Reclamation of the English Language

It's not that I'm trying to troll the English language or write bad grammar, but I am trying to subject the language to a different system of how to say it. Even in the past tense verbs are present tense. It means sometimes going long stretches and distinguishing H1 from H2 from H3. You know, I thought I was on the Seth Maris through any point in the road. Don't you give her students rules that you break on? Like, of course. And it's funny because I am the person who will say I gave you a B plus instead of A because you split the infinitive. The great thing about English is we always sort of police what

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