Does Everyone Speak Italian?

Today I had some trouble with irregular singular familiar imperative forms. And with coughing up that phrase for the preceding sentence.

Also: yet another person I know speaks Italian! She is a college classmate of mine, whom I just came across on Facebook, and who recently spent several years in Italy. We have now exchanged several messages in Italian. In college we never spoke anything but English with each other, and it is strange—and thrilling—to communicate suddenly in a new language with someone you previously knew only in another.

By the way, I love writing e-mail and Facebook messages in languages other than English.

And it really does seem sometimes as though everyone in the world spoke Italian all along! Except me. And I just didn’t know.

In the evening, I decided I was going to do a little more grammar (including imperative), without getting compulsive about it, because what I really need is to get to bed earlier and be a normal human being again.

I found myself signing off at 1:42 a.m., so I have already failed in my resolution.