Don't be fooled, Guest. Michael's "command of the English language" is entirely predicated on pretentious and arcane (he thinks) constructions that he uses to try, unsuccessfully because he's so easy to see through, to browbeat us with into bouts of completely unnecessary mental processing. Frankly, it's plain rude (though "plain" would seem to be a word that has bypassed Michael's lexicon). A person who has true command of the language comes across as elegant, simple, lucid and easy to understand, without the need to be patronising. I'm afraid that Michael fails on every count. He could be successful, of course, as he has the intellectual potential to be erudite, but he does need to find some way of extracting his head from up his bottom first.