And about the Spanish/Spanglish/English continuum, I think that bemoaning the incursion of Spanish into English is probably a waste of time; moreover, I think it ought to be welcomed as the clearest possible sign of overall mutual comfort between the two groups. For instance, you don't find anywhere near the level of Arabic that you would expect in modern French, despite much more than a century of Arab presence in the country -- intensified sharply since 1960 -- and that can portend only bad things. You remember the riots the other year -- there is massive alienation from French culture. But that's another story...
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Date: 2007-09-06 05:49 am (UTC)