Category: Metalinguistics
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Chicano academics
The theocracy of la raza are beyond the streets they study. Something happens to chicano academics that makes them distance themselves from the very culture they purport to examine. I don’t get that. In colloquial language they sell out. For some reason they have transgressed a border and become uneasy with the realities before them.…
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I-d
Now and then I manage to hear my own self speak. An ungodly accidental omniscient ens about. It turns out that hearing oneself isn’t so productive. This time I happened to hear myself. And I thought: who am I? This question might just seem trivial for some. Specially monolinguals. I can choose between three languages…
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Golosearse
En el periódico La Jornada del día 19 del mes corriente se podía apreciar un subtítulo que lee así: “Según fuentes del Grupo Táctico, los policías “se engolosinaron†al abrir fuego“. Mas adelante se puede apreciar con más detalle lo siguiente: Fuentes del Grupo Táctico –formado por corporaciones de los tres niveles de gobierno– dijeron…
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comentario de la lengua chueca
Como es bien sabido por los cuatro vientos y el Phoenix que corretea marcianos en marte, la literatura en inglés desde hace mucho perdió ese dominio de que solo los anglosajones conocidos en nuestra parte del mundo como WASPs escriben en inglés. Existen miles de angloparlantes que no son necesariamente blanquitos que digamos. Los vestigios…
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ambiguo
Nothing brings me more joy to my hearts delight then when I confuse people about my ethnicity. I just love it. I will give an example of said ventures of mine that tickles my belly silly. I recently came across a Spaniard and spoke only English with him. He asked me where I was from,…
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ambigíüo
Nothing brings me more joy to my hearts delight then when I confuse people about my ethnicity. I just love it. I will give an example of said ventures of mine that tickles my belly silly. I recently came across a Spaniard and spoke only English with him. He asked me where I was from,…
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L
English. Every time I look at this blog am embarrassed by the amount of posts. 450 with this one. In Spanish I have about a thousand more plus that. I guess that explains a few things. When there is nothing to tell in English the flow stops. I believe that. I have failed to use…
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Haven’t just
I seem to recall Bartleby, that old Melville character that so baffles many of us in this so called modern world, whenever I cherish the idea of entertaining thoughts on Chicanismo. I feel am so way beyond that that the mere thought entails and automatic I prefer not to. I believe I have lost my…