Censored no, more like walking alongside the difficulty of understanding another had with my text. At worse trying to figure out how someone could have such an analytical approach . Our family business at one point was media outlet in the middle-east, I know censorship well enough not to react to anything but law.
"A bit of reductio ad absurdum, suggesting that by my not understanding you, that I am somehow saying you shouldn't be allowed to speak English or express humor"
A quip open to be taken as a taunt, but equally a self reassuring humble observation given that just about everything in speech is questioned and scrutinised nowadays
. You want to take a sentence out to understand the text ??? It also relates to the last part of the text , but whatever suits I suppose.
kkrell, I'm well aware that Robert Burns was Scottish, though he did write in English (or lowland or broad Scots if you prefer the difference). A point of including it (apart from the fact that I liked to share it), was that the syntax is acceptable and understandable even though it isn't standard prose (for being a poem). It isn't to compare my own text with his even, only to offer that point.
And yeah mate, I'm a Brit. Apart from living many years in UK and my family all being British (except for one grandparent), I have also lived in several countries and visited many more, also speak three or four languages. I don't say that to impress because it isn't (impressive) to me, just 'normal'. However, if you're wondering why I'm not speaking Queen's English, it's because I just could not be bothered to think back into that frame, and it would probably stand out "like a sore thumb" here ... I used to have a hard accent from Derbs at one point and had it "corrected" by school friends... there's no winning as far as all that is concerned and everyone is more right than the next.
This all reminded me of the "Scottish Elevator - Voice Recognition - ELEVEN !" clip, but won't link it.
Anyway, I leave it to go back to OP because it wouldn't be fair to keep bumping it up to top of queue
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