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Thursday, May 7, 2009

IMITATION IS THE HIGEST FORM OF SLOBBERY

Perdoname
que me he
comido, todos
tus maduros.

Es que
estaban
requete-
deliciosos.

Tan calentitas
y sabrosas.

Y el sarten
te lo deje

Podrido
de aceite.

Porque are you afraid de Spanglish?

"Nothing seems to inflame advocates of our nation's Anglo-Saxon traditions so much as this issue of language. Since a people's culture--it's music, literature, and customs--is invevitably expressed through its language, the growth of 'foreign' language use somehow implied the growth of foreign cultures. Since 1990, for instance, more than 32 million American spoke English as a second language, a phenomenal one-third increase over 1980, and for more than half of those 32 million, Spanish was the primary tongue"

--From "Harvest of Empire" by Juan Gonzalez, 2000, pg xiii

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Thursday, May 7, 2009

IMITATION IS THE HIGEST FORM OF SLOBBERY

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