Constraints
I tend to adopt an attitude towards language that it’s nearly pristine in its stipulations since I exact a nativists view on language that cannot possibly meet the standards I want. That is, I want what it is said in L1 to be exactly the same as in…
Read MoreQuinto comment II
In relation to the Fifth Comment: Here in Sweden, Swedes can’t see beyond my ethnic look or what their eyes tell them I am. A brown person. So the idea of an American has also been hijacked by color lines. Although, much to my surprise Swedes…
Read Moreone for the road
In the age of the blog, Stream of consciousness will revolutionize neurosis in ways only television can understand … Yesterday, my closest friend ever said the unthinkable, he said, I hate Hitler. I couldn’t believe my ears. He said, upon me…
Read MoreI shall defend thee, gente Xicana
I usually don’t mingle my Spanish and English though am known by my most fervent reader, editor, proofreader, slacker, gíüevón, patron (that is, me) to occasionally indulge in doing so. So far I have managed to mesh the prime philosophy behind my…
Read MoreRequiered reading ese
“La Malinche.” Slave, interpreter, secretary, mistress, mother of the first “Mexican.” her very name still stirs up controversy. Associate Professor of History R. Douglas Cope teaches Mexican and colonial Latin American history.…
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