Harper, you are correct. I am quite fluent in spoken English (damn well
beter be too, since my Spanish and Russian are [censored]), but when it comes
to the written language, I really stumble over the ones derived from
French words. I was reading Communist Manifesto the other day (really
good toilet reading when you are stuck on the john with no other decent
literature), and it was about 6 pages into it before I noticed bourgeios
was actually "Boozhwa (phonetic attempt at spelling. And speaking of
Russian, I have noticed that it is far easier to spell that word
phonetically in Cyrillic than in English.)." As for my capitalization
(or lack thereof) of English, I do know to capitalize English, but a
lazy pinky combined with 4 years of English teacher apathetic about my
punctuation until the final draft have left me to sacrafice a small bit
of gramar in the name of faster typing speeds.
And Harper, now I'm really off topic, but if you wish to know, my
English teacher is alive and well, but you are still partly correct,
since the part of her brain that deals with basic grammar, punctuation,
and handwriting must've been lost in a car crash. She just already
expects us to know the stuff, which is pretty daring since we're
products of the American school system.
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