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Jonah learned to accept the grammar of his life—as precise as “can hardly” when he needed honesty, flexible enough to tolerate friends’ colloquialisms. In the end, freedom was less a destination and more a patient editing: deleting some sentences, rewriting others, and discovering that even imperfect phrasing could carry truth.
To the untrained ear, they might sound interchangeable—two ways of expressing the same struggle. But grammatically, they are mortal enemies. One is a precise tool for expressing difficulty; the other is a logical paradox that accidentally means the opposite of what the speaker intends.