did you ever have that feeling where as far as you could tell you were speaking english, and the person you were speaking with was using many of the same words as you were, and some of the concepts even matched up, but just whenever you started to get confident about your ability to get across anything at all, it became obvious that you were speaking outer mongolian instead?

i'm going back to pointing and grunting. people hardly ever misunderstand pointing and grunting. i can't get anything complicated across, but hell, i can't do that now. and if i just get those little flash cards made up that say "did you check the scripts?" and "that goes to the server team", i'll function at work just as well as i do now.