To Boy in My "Cohort" Who Feels Always Already Othered by Everything I Say

I'm sorry that, in my affected critique of Aijaz Ahmad's affective critique of Jameson's theory of "(third) world literature," I insisted on saying "AAAAAAAmad" instead of "ACCCHHHHmad," and on making jokes to the effect of "why all the affect, Aijaz?", but languages have different phonologies, and, as you sneered to a sympathetic ear in the hall, "at least [I] didn't say he was gay." At least you made me bracket my "I"!