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I AM STARTING TO LOSE MY ENGLISH LANGUAGE FACILITIES.* This is a distressing result of a) studying in Chinese, b) being inundated by Chinese on all sides, c) making constant fun of the interchangeability of Chinese verbs, nouns and other grammatical oddities, d) lacking opportunity to write and read in English, and e) being CONSTANTLY SURROUNDED BY AMERICANS. Today I accidentally said "I can't" the American way; this is unforgivable, possibly more so than all the other grammatical errors I have been making in my everyday speech. My the Chinese is make my the English really the terrible. I go back university to study, that time, definitely will die already.
and god help me if I start saying toh-may-to.
* [edit] oh god, I meant faculties