Yup, I can knit. It just doesn't go as quickly as crocheting, even that tight-textured crochet equivalent of knitting, the single crochet, does. You'll be interested and perhaps amused to know that, as in music, where a British crotchet is an American quarter note, the stitches are named differently as well:

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art347.asp

e.g.: An American single crochet stitch is called a double crochet stitch in Britain (and Europe, I believe).