In my Defense

My mother was kind enough to point out in my last blog entry, that I used the word accountability where I should have used the word accounting. Now, I have never claimed to be a champion wordist. A proper handle on grammar and spelling of the English language has always seemed just out of my grasp.

But that is my excuse this time. It's English! My primary spoken language these days is Spanish. A lot of volunteers say the more Spanish they speak, the worse their English gets. I don't know if this is true of not. I think my comprehension of this romance language has actually helped me make sense of the English language. But I have found that I am increasingly forgetting English words and have had to stop and think about such common words like avocado and mattress.

My accountability/accounting mix up is just one example of how the languages in my head are running together and no matter which one I am speaking, it often comes out as spanglish. You see, the word accounting in Spanish is contablilidad. And I wrote the blog entry moments after I had come back from trying to help that old lady with her US taxes and racking my brain for accounting jargon in spanish.

I know my English isn't great, but cut me a break. I struggle enough with one language and here I am trying to juggle two. I think my writing errors just give my blog entries my unique personality: far from perfect but they try really really hard.