[He won't. Erwin's handwriting was neat and legible before, but he has things on his mind besides his penmanship now. Just wait until he discovers typewriters, and then it's all over.]

Are you familiar at all with electricity? It hadn't yet been discovered where I come from, so it's still very new to me.

[Erwin has no problem admitting this; there's no shame, he's decided, in coming from a less technological world. It's not his fault this is all new, and he's learning.]