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Campbell's soup features Mock Spanish
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<span style="font-family:Times,Times New Roman,serif">This soup, 
chicken with quinoa and chilis, was quite good.  However, the package 
contains the phrase "no problemo."  Really, Campbell's?  This is a 
disturbing use of what linguistic anthropologists call "Mock Spanish." 
 One of the scholars who's written most about this usage is Jane Hill 
(University of Arizona); here's a link to a paper on<a href="http://language-culture.binghamton.edu/symposia/2/part1/index.html"> Mock Spanish</a> by Professor Hill.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family:Times,Times New Roman,serif">As Hill writes, "... <span style="background-color:white">everyday
 talk, of a type that is almost never characterized (at least by Anglos)
 as "racist'', is one of the most important sites for the covert 
reproduction of this racism. "Mock Spanish'', the topic of this paper, 
is one example of such a site."<br><br><a href="http://crankylinguist.blogspot.com/2012/09/campbells-soup-features-mock-spanish.html">http://crankylinguist.blogspot.com/2012/09/campbells-soup-features-mock-spanish.html</a><br>
</span></span></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>
University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br>
<a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a>    <br><br>-------------------------------------------------<br>