😂 It finally happened.
Thinking in Spanish, writing in English, I just sent an email with the words "others ideas" and didn't catch the error because I was reading "otras ideas", which is FINE.
Sometimes I've seen my English prepositions slipping due to how differently they're used in Spanish, but the pluralization of adjectives is a HUGE shift in language theory.
Go home, bilingual brain.
You're drunk! 😂
@MLClark Given your mastery of multiple languages, I don't know how you keep it all straight.
I had three years of French in high school, then two years of Russian in college. I took beginning Spanish my last college quarter; it all went to mush in my head. I'd know the word not in Spanish but in another language, which the teacher found amusing but still marked me wrong.
Another reason to admire your many gifts.
@MLClark Wow, glad it wasn't just me!
On tests, I'd write the answer in whatever language I knew, with a side note. The teacher got the joke, but still marked me wrong. We lived in the same apartment complex and saw each other all the time; she knew I was killing time until graduation, so it was our private joke.
Still, I'm impressed that you chose to immerse yourself. I'd love to do that with Russian but, well, y'know ... 🇺🇦
Almost two full years now.
I'm not looking forward to what's become an annual ritual of going out and writing a poem on the day of the invasion.
I'll still do it, because we've very much normalized being in the grip of two painful wars and I don't want this to feel normal at all, but good grief. What a really strange, difficult decade we've had.
I'm just thankful it's come with some bright spots, too - like new good friends who know how to lean into the light of life as well. 🤗
@MLClark Absent unforeseen circumstances, I see no end for Russia-Ukraine. Putin himself has no incentive to stop. Everyone else suffers but him. He will have to shuffle off his mortal samovar before a cease fire.
Netanyahu may need a perpetual war to stay in office. Hamas gave him one.
Hopefully Ecuador works it out.
More poetry for you to write, alas.
But the long curve of history bends in the direction of progress. Feed the right wolf.
@WordsmithFL
I had the most horrifying time while I was learning Spanish: I forgot my familial French for a year or so! I'd start a sentence in French and end it in Spanish - and even after, it took a lot of time to get my pronunciation back.
It's such a strange feeling, when you can't access a tongue you already know - but some studies show that the brain while learning a new language looks a little like a brain recovering from an accident, developing new pathways.
So... 🙃 You're not alone!