Great read. As a multilingual speaker, I had quite some chuckles. And then there are pearls like these:<p>"Now I think it’s lovely that such a decorative language as Arabic exists. I wish I could walk around New York and hear people talking in proverbs."<p>"It no longer rains in America; your TV weatherman will tell that you we’re experiencing a precipitation probability situation."<p>"Remember: how you write is how you define yourself to people who meet you only through your writing. If your writing is pretentious, that’s how you’ll be perceived. The reader has no choice."