Re: Am I a horrible person for inquiring about the guy’s English speaking skills?
Even though I like the jest of this post and no qualms about it…but for the OP, with all due respect to khattichick, I will take liberty to point out the pure grammatical mistakes honorable khattichick made.
1- I was born and raised here. You cannot mix two tenses present and past together in one sentence.
2- Had there been times when I inwardly cringed at something he said or wrote in a text/email?
You cannot repeat word “have” in one sentence, it seems very redundant. You have to add the word and and a new part of the sentence with have to make it sound acceptable.
3- He asks me grammar related questions all the time.
He’ll makes it a future sentence but when you say all the time it is contradictory and takes the sentence to the past or something he never has done but you are predicting it in the future.
Also it is not correct to say grammatical related questions…since it is also redundant. grammatical means related to grammar.