It's not "poor", just the occasional slip-up. I tried turning it into a joke but guess it didn't come across as funny. Sorry.
ps Secretaries are far better at spelling and construction of grammatically correct sentences than teachers. An extreme generalisation, but I'm sticking to it. After all, I have been both. Because most of my bosses were male, I knew they were reliant on me to correct their spellos of which they made many. Probably why the arrangement of secretaries being women and bosses being men always worked so well.
NBD loves the English language and the way words can be whatever he wants them to be.
“When I use a
word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “
it means just what I choose
it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question
is,” said Alice, “whether you
can make
words mean so many different things.” “The question
is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which
is to be master—
that's all.”
from Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
