interesting things that people fill out on their dental history forms.

why are you here today? normally we expect something like
"para chequear los dientes/to check my teeth"
"tengo dolor de diente/have a toothache"
"limpieza/cleaning"

every now and then, people take that question a little more literally. more than i would expect i see answers like,
"para tengo cita/because i have an appointment"

duh.

today something made me a little sad. one patient wrote
"i be blooding"

and she really meant to write "i be bleeding"

not "i'm bleeding [in my gums]"

anyway, it's pretty impressive to me that "to be" is poorly conjugated in this population.
english is pretty hard, grammatically.
but i feel like enough people watch enough t.v. where we should be able to pick up on some standard language mechanics.

i showed calvin, and he became very blue, responding with, "what?! it's one thing to speak like that, coz maybe that's cool, but it's just sad when it penetrates into writing."

sigh.
i dunno.