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Quick tip - if the majority of people who read something find it ambiguous, it is. Plain and simple - especially for languages like English that don't have a central authority for setting language rules.
We can't help it if the US doesn't teach it's population proper English, take it up with your education system.
Quick tip - People with a poor grasp of un-simplified English are not the majority
It's written by a British person in OG English. This phrase isn't unambiguous here and it took me a sec to figure out why people were confused. It's just a syntax difference but surely you can figure it out with context clues, just like I did with your interpretation.