Progressives, Hispanics are not 'Latinx.' Stop trying to Anglicize our Spanish language.

[TexasTowelie]

11. The best thing about taking Spanish during my last two years in college

is that it provided a powerful reinforcement of English grammar, particularly regarding verb tense. The last time I had studied English grammar was in 7th grade and my brain wasn't wired to absorb that information at the time.

I consider myself to be fortunate that my grammar skills improved in my professional life since my career ventured into legal, medical, insurance, and computer terminology. I even received a few compliments on emails that I wrote because I was successful with the use of technical jargon to technicians and executives so that both could comprehend what I wrote. Rule #1 was to make the point within the first paragraph and preferably within three sentences. If the reader was interested, then the remainder of my emails contained the details, options, explanations, and suggestions in subsequent paragraphs. It was appreciated that I got to the point rather than waste people's time.

I still need to work on the issue of procrastination though. I usually don't have a problem writing or suffer from writer's block once I get rolling with my thoughts and obviously it is much easier to organize sentences and paragraphs using a computer than my old method where I wrote everything in my rough draft, then numbered each of those sentences so that they were stated in a logical sequence.