14.2778, Media: MSNBC Article on Spanglish

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-14-2778. Tue Oct 14 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 14.2778, Media: MSNBC Article on Spanglish

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Date:  Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:50:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:  Zach Wolff <zachary_wolff at yahoo.com>
Subject:  MSNBC Article on Spanglish

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Date:  Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:50:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:  Zach Wolff <zachary_wolff at yahoo.com>
Subject:  MSNBC Article on Spanglish

I thought some people might be interested in this
article.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/968788.asp

Linguists get a bad rap:

"To the very stodgy members of the Royal Academy, Stavans's work only
serves to desecrate pure Spanish.  Ditto say the academics and
linguists of Spanish in this country. They are too locked up in their
comfortable offices to want to see what is happening in the streets
today, says Stavans."

My linguistic education has been full of attack after attack on
prescriptivism.  Who is Stavans (or the author of the article,
Paternostro) talking about?

Cheers,
Zach Wolff



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