And didn't pick up enough of it.

English is totally his first language, Steph. Born and raised in America.

Assuming it's who I think it is. Which, now that I think about it, is probably not true since it's the youth group. So English may not be his first language, but the youth group in our area is pretty generally full of ABCDs. I don't know. I'll have to ask, because now I feel bad.

Okay, I called my mom. He was born in India, but he's been here since kindergarten. (Okay, my mom's not totally sure; she thinks he MAY have been born here.)

My Aunt J could use a little health~ma. Her latest pap smear came back with an off reading, I'm not sure exactly what it is, but she's going to see another gyno for a second opinion and he's going to do his own pap smear. Aunt J seems confident that this isn't serious, but she's been under so much stress with getting G'ma moved, dealing with Aunt W, and burning her hand, oh and G'ma falling and hurting her leg and needing oral surgery -- actually G'ma could use a bit of health ma as well.

PC that kinda sounds like the way one of our maintenance guys might write. They have mostly finished high school but writing is not their strong point at all so there's often awkward phrasing and odd puncuation choices.

Apparently, I'm due to get his sister's contribution later today, and she's even worse than he is, despite having been born here.

Though I guess it's not saying that if you have faith you shouldn't also be a nice person doing good works.

My childhood church explained this part by saying that if you have faith, your faith will motivate you to be a nice person and do good works. But I don't know whether that was official Missouri Synod Lutheran doctrine or just the opinion of one pastor.

Um. Sometimes I share too much and too easily.

I need a new TMI filter. One more appropriate for knowing what and what not to share with college professors.

Big congrats to Joe for his new job!

My husband, who was born in the US and mostly raised there (although English was not the language he spoke at home) is a terrible writer, although not as bad as the example PC gave. I've never been able to identify exactly why this is so since he's plenty smart, educated, and an extremely persuasive public speaker. I think it's connected in some way to not having English speaking role models at home.

I have encountered many, MANY smart, educated people who speak English as a first language who are very, very bad writers. Fortunately, this helps keep me in a job (I'm a technical writer, btw).