Who Invented the English Language Anyway?

There's nothing like the English language to embarrass the crapola out of you (I give some some credit to the English language for allowing me to come up with the word crapola).

In our church we often refer to each other as Brother or Sister (you know, we are all part of one big happy or sometimes not so happy family). Well, a gentleman that I work with in my church calling who is new to his calling was talking to me, and as part of the conversation said, "Now, your brother?" Thinking that he was trying to make a family connection with me and my more famous brother, I stated my brother's first name. When he paused for a second, I again stated my brother's first name and his last name and said, "the talented stake organist and music specialist". He kind of said, "oh", gave me a little bit of a strange look and went on with his conversation.

I later had another conversation with this gentleman and he asked me about my musical abilities. I said that I was not that talented and that my brother was much more talented than me. He again kind of looked at me funny. Then all of a sudden it dawned on me why I had been getting all of the strange looks. I realized that in the first conversation we had he asked, "You're (you are) Brother?" instead of "Your (meaning possessively, my) brother?"

So fit this back in to the original conversation and see how much of a strange duck he thinks I am. I'm sure he has been going around saying how strange my brother is (thinking he's referring to me).

No way was I going to correct him and tell him my real name. Not as long as my brother will take the rap for it. I hope he doesn't find out who I really am.

You don't see anything wrong with that do you?