The Mother Tong. Tongeru. Tungue. Whatever.

In order to work as an EA in Alberta, I was required to complete a university English class. It has left me feeling considerably less confident about my ability to use my mother tongue, let alone spell the word tongue. Does that look right to you? I don't know anymore. 

If I have a conceit, or at least one that I'll own, it is that I have a fairly decent grasp of the English language and how to bend it to my will. What I have learned, these past few weeks, is that I know more about the field of advanced calculus than I do about English.  For example, I know that advanced calculus is stupid. I know what you are thinking. Is not the truest lesson I could have learned the discovery that there is so very much I do not know, may never know?

Possibly. 

I could also have used more clarity on the adjectival function of a gerund.