I’m so glad I’m not the only one.

Sometimes I’m about to say something in French, then I try to find the English word for it and then can’t find it. I may forget a famous celebrity, while speaking in the language I’m learning or I may create a sentence with Spanish, French and English mixed together. The other day I went to a restaurant with friends and one of them asked me a question in Italian as a joke.  I immediately responded in Italian, but I’ve never studied Italian.  The last straw came when a friend of my mother spoke to me in Twi(A Ghanaian language) and I replied in French. You should have seen her face.

As I was so traumatised by these events, I went to see my doctor, who did a few memory tests and told me not to worry. She spoke in English and I replied in English. Phew!

I know I have a small brain, but this just confirms the lack of space it has.

During the school summer holidays, I had a boring friend who was calling every day to go out. One day I decided enough was enough and I told my little sister, if he called, to tell him I wasn’t in. One day, this friend called, my little sister answered the door and told him that I had told her to say I wasn’t in.

A cousin of mine was moaning about how his mother cooked rice. She wasn’t a great cook, but he tolerated it. However, that day, he’d had enough. Feeling sorry for his mother, I told him maybe it’s the type of rice and maybe she should try a different brand. He asked me the brand name and I told him. He then went to his mother’s  kitchen cupboard and showed me the brand I was just talking about.

It may well not be trolls. It may well be someone who’s fed up of seeing language partner requests on the discussion part of the forum. There could also be other reasons.

In regards to knowing who has liked or disliked a discussion, I can see obvious problems for those users who are not trolls, eg harassment.

A troll really doesn’t care. Their identity is normally never real and their sole function is to cause hurt and anarchy. So revealing them will make no difference, because we don’t know who they really are, plus they’ll probably setup another account.

Italki has to create a separate discussion forum for people looking for a language exchange partner. That may reduce a user downvoting and reveal the troll, because I’m assuming Italki knows which account downvoted a discussion.

I love cats but like Val, I have an allergy to them.

Dogs seem to love me, but I’ve always found them a bit scary.  They sit next to me, follow me, jump on me and want to lick my face.