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Fair but saying English writing is incoherent makes it sound like their ideas are all over the place and you can't make heads or tails of it



Of a person, yes. Of a language, I think the intention is clear.

Note that this is syntactically ambiguous – a lovely feature of English. Try writing a sentence that isn't.


Syntactic ambiguity is a feature of human languages, period. Nothing is uniquely English about it.


It's a feature of many, but not all.


Name an unambiguous language.




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