Nicaragua

[Paul Frank]

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 04:31:00 -0400, Benjamin Zimmer wrote

> This was discussed on the sci.lang newsgroup a few years back... Poggioli
> and fellow NPR correspondent Maria Hinojosa were singled out:
>
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.lang/browse_frm/thread/13b31af469fabc07/
>
> In that thread I mentioned Jane Hill's piece on "Mock Spanish", which
> discusses a Saturday Night Live skit from 1990 satirizing (Anglo)
> broadcasters' hyper-Spanish pronunciation of Spanish terms, from the
> ambivalent perspective of a Latino correspondent played by Jimmy Smits.
>
> -----
> http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US8/SPAN/mockspan.html

Thanks Ben. I wished I'd see the skit.


Paul
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