So what.

I suggest reading. Real books, non-celebrity magazines and Wikipedia. Also do crosswords. Turn off the TV and read.

Example: I used to read Circle Track magazine. Smokey Yunick's articles taught me about flame front propagation (fuel should burn, not explode, in an even front originating at the spark plug), material deformation (a piston actually come to a stop at the top of its stroke, this places large breaking forces on the wristpin and holes in piston pin goes through).

Isaac Asimov was actually an English prof. His non-fiction "From Flat Earth To Quasars" is written in plain language and traces history of astronomy. You go from earliest theories and proofs to latest in black holes. All the time using maths no higher than early high school. Now I know about Conservation of Angular Momentum (when a figure skater speeds up spin by pulling in arms, works on stars too), stellar parallax (where far away stars distance may be measured by there apparent movement in the sky as the earth moves about the sun, simple geometry).

Pick a topic on Wiki and just go with it. Use the hyperlinks and see if you eventually return or go off on a tangent.

Crosswords are really good for brain exercise, practice and learning new words. Having answers helps. Best is when the paper has answers next day.

There is something about reading. As you read I think you see it and sub-vocally speak it in your head.

Read it, write it, speak it and it goes in to long term memory after a good nights sleep.
 
What does it mean to Kim? (I'm serious, not making fun. I would like to know.)

You be so silly, girl.

Everyone knows what it means to kim, yo.

It's when a guy in a girl, that are like, you know, into each other, one thing leads to another, and then before you know it they are in the kim position.

You dig?
 
I'm not a good speller or writer. Plus I write sloppy, I could read a word but can't spell it. That's my problem.

This isn't spelling, it's usage. Master these are you are way ahead of the game.
 
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