<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dear Sarah and Frank,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> I was upset, and frankly dismayed, by the negative comments about Spanglish and Spanglish speakers. Outraged, in fact, since I have devoted decades to research on this topic; some of my publications that prove the grammatical, cognitive, and social benefits of Spanglish are listed in the link below my name, and one is attached.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> I will reach out to the U of Florida faculty member [where is she from? Spain?] whose work was published by the Spanish Royal Academy, although their misinformed policies and positions have been disproved and repudiated for decades [In 2014 many scholars forced the RAE to change their insulting and incorrect definition of Spanglish as " <i>deformando</i>/deforming" in their<i> Diccionario de la Real Academia.] </i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I would need to see a breakdown of the backgrounds [ages, gender identities, ethnicities, birthplace, level of bilingualism, education, occupations, etc] of her subjects to get a clearer picture of those who claim Spanglish speakers are "intellectually lazy". She will hear from many in her field whose research refutes that view, with data from across the USA and the world. As Monika Heller from Canada explained decades ago, the new bilingual elite is at fault:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> “…because of the nature of the new
economy, the ability to cross boundaries
is important…. but what is valued is a
multilingualism as a set of parallel
monolingualisms, not a hybrid system....
This [new bilingual] elite builds a
position which marginalizes both those
bilinguals whose linguistic resources do
not conform to the new norms, and those
who are, simply, monolingual.” (Heller 1999:5) </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> In contrast, the elementary school children whom I observed and taped at home and in the streets of NY's Puerto Rican<i> barrio</i> made over 1600 switches at junctures that honored both Spanish and English grammars, to accomplish more than a dozen communicative goals; the details are in <u>Growing up Bilingual: Puerto Rican Children in NY</u>, the winner of national and international awards. "<i>Hablamos los dos,</i>we speak both" dijo un ni<span style="color:rgb(0,29,53);font-family:"Google Sans",Arial,sans-serif">ñ</span>o con orgullo. Como explica su servidora:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
“Spanglish is a rule governed, in-group
and informal style of speaking, an act of
‘doing being bilingual’. It consists of
adapted and unadapted English loan
words inserted in Spanish, calques, and
switches between Spanish and English
that can be both intra- and inter
sentential. It is a graphic way of saying
“we speak both because we are both””.</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> Ojala' dejemos de insultar a los que hablan Spanglish, and value their bilingual dexterity instead.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Cordialmente, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Ana Celia Zentella </span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,66);font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(248,251,247)">(</span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://9ghd13g2.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:*2F*2Fnamedrop.io*2Fanaceliazentella/1/010201894d178c07-d2a8b738-ee51-4d0f-883b-f59393c2c489-000000/OoTVk5w7dfLzWK5s97jIt9B3T78=330__;JSUl!!Mih3wA!FGAjyp55780P0Au5FEX99xDMVynsV3XDcWkUm3R6UKiWcFeT1qi6Y-jWga2yMwZaoOwlRm9vuWIj0PEd-UQ$" rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer" title="https://namedrop.io/testingtesting21" style="color:rgb(235,106,46);border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(248,251,247)" target="_blank">hear name</a><span style="color:rgb(32,31,66);font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(248,251,247)">) </span><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">SAY HIS/HER/THEIR NAMES!!</b></div><div>Professor Emerita</div><div>UCSD Department of Ethnic Studies</div><div><a href="https://ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/people/zentella.html" rel="noreferrer" style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/people/zentella.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>CELEBRATE International Mother Language Day <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/imld2024/home" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/imld2024/home</a><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium">DOWNLOAD THE </span><i style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium">free </i><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium">BILINGUAL MANUAL:</span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium">HOW TO RAISE A BLINGUAL CHILD/CÓMO CRIAR A UN(A) NIÑO(A) BILINGÜE</div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://tinyurl.com/aczentella-manual__;!!Mih3wA!BgvajYneg48XXaG3dhn24T9_VhaOjk-oEDnZZipHaPaWxzs9Kf1sZ7-6b_TF60dC5DPLZDKsImtNRd6xfA$" rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer" style="border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/aczentella-manual</a><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14.6667px">Retired UC San Diego prof. researches the power of language</span></div><div><a href="https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/lifestyle/people/story/2023-04-01/listen-closely-retired-uc-san-diego-prof-researches-the-power-of-language" rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer" style="border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14.6667px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Tahoma;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px" target="_blank">https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/lifestyle/people/story/2023-04-01/listen-closely-retired-uc-san-diego-prof-researches-the-power-of-language</a><br></div><div><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font size="4">I</font>nducted into American Academy of Arts & Sciences 2023</font><br><span style="color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif">Association of Latina/o and Latinx Anthropologists : Distinguished Career Award 2023 </span></i><i><br></i></p></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> "Frank D. Gomez" <<a href="mailto:fragobf@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">fragobf@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> March 21, 2025 at 10:49:34 PM EDT<br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Attitudes toward Spanglish</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span>
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Pleased to share this abstract in English and Spanish about a phenomenon that receives insufficient attention. It appears in Glosas, the scholarly newsletter of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española),
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For me, a key reference is to "pereza intelectual," or "intellectual laziness," to explain why some persons use "spanglish." It is key because for many years that is what I have said. On further reflection, however, I point out that I know many Spanish speakers
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Spanglish, in my view, is used by many persons who lack the formal education in one or both languages and who resort to it to communicate quickly. In speaking with some bilinguals in English I often say "andamios" instead of "scaffolding" — a NYC phenomenon
— because of discussing "andamios" with relatives and friends. Now, this is not "spanglish."</div>
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I confess to not having read the entire treatise — for the "intellectually curious," it is attached. I hope to read it "in extenso."</div>
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