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My pet theory is that spoken English and written English are two different languages that kinda translate between them.
In spoken English, "I read books." doesn't have ambiguous tense.
You're not exactly wrong. Spoken english was shaped by mostly the use of common people while writing was exclusively the domain of the clergy and nobility for a very long time.
Noah Webster didn't go far enuf
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