[buwaya]

I am a better writer than you are. More creative, certainly. Talent and experience trumps credentials.

I can’t claim a Joseph Conrad or V.S. Naipaul level of talent (both to some degree ESL guys), but we are not playing at that level.

[kiryandil]

The salutatorian of my HS class is an ESL professor. He's probably more fluent in Castilian Spanish than you are, Pee-Noise.

And I was his better in English.

He's got me in total languages, though. I only do five or six.

He's into the low double digits.

I am a better writer than you are. More creative, certainly. Talent and experience trumps credentials.

I actually don't bother reading most of your useless verbal diarrhea. Once I see that it's a post by you, I can shut off my intake.

It's a gift that many of us people with eidetic/photographic memory have.

Sorting between important, and chaff.