You don’t sound Mexican*
Pues no te oyes Mexicano -ponme una botella de tequila Los Cadetes de Linares y después platicaremos. *percances de largas estancias en el extranjero
Read MoreGrammatical distance
Siempre me ha sorprendido encontrarme con ejemplos de gramática que deberían de hacer sonar sonajas a loco en mi aparato de detección de errores gramaticales pero que no lo hacen. Tengan ustedes este ejemplo que escribió una de mis estudiantes de…
Read MoreHad to ask
So am writing profusely in English. Don’t ask why. It just happens. I think I started picking up on my writing because of Hemingway. Or the movie at least. The one with that chick, Nicole Kidman. Though I’ve read a number of stories of…
Read Moreretazos mentales
I find myself thinking about human relations today. Not because I hate the xmas season, which I do. But because solitude seems to glue some aspects of society in some pretty weird ways. Take for example a man I saw today while I had to wait for my…
Read MoreCompeting languages
I feel comfortable to say am a trilingual. Having said that I can proceed with a phenomenon that I have experienced as a trilingual, newly at that if one wills. I get stuck at times. Allow me to expand. I suppose imagery ought to come handy in these sort…
Read MoreMirabile dictu
Días extraños. 1.- El otro día me dí cuenta que en mis sueños quería corregirme de un error que me vi cometer. O sea, Me observaba en mis sueños. Un sueño lúcido. Tengo por costumbre agregarle miel a shampoo. En mi sueño, dentro de una conversación,…
Read MoreCompeting personas of a trilingual
Here in the Swedish Highlands I speak Swedish to those few I speak to. Don’t get me wrong, there is the occasional Spanish speaker to whom one is lucky to exchange a few inborn lingo with in that tongue of yore. For the most part the operative…
Read MoreEspanglish & Spanglish
This post was originally posted March the 3rd of 2005. But in order to celebrate the fact Espanglish has made into the DRAE we reprint it again with some slight modifications in orthography that I missed back then. One must be careful about las variantes…
Read MoreConstraints
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 MoreLillgammal
En Suecia están obsesionados con el comportamiento, todos están prestos a juzgar y otros detalles al primer indició de una desviación social. Quieren a toda costa que todo sea uniforme y de alguna manera la gran mayoría vive la ilusión de que todo…
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