It dawned on my today that studying English Language probably isn’t a good thing for me. For example:
1, Yesterday I saw a man who looked exactly like Schuldig (except, you know, human) and I immediately started calling him Schwa, and because Schuldig is German I started thinking about Glottal Stops, because Germans use a lot of them. It didn’t even register in my mind that he was hot until he’d gone.
2, When a friend said she wanted to buy Timberlake’s album ‘The Way I Are’ I complained loudly and for a long time about how it was grammatically incorrect and what is the world coming to if people don’t speak properly? etc.
3, When reading I immediately look for verbs and then see which of the 6 types it is, and generally break the sentence up and syntactically analyse EVERY SINGLE WORD. This is not my idea of fun. I may never read a book/fic for enjoyment ever again.
Alas, it pains me that I have another two years of this.