Sunday, February 28, 2010

Spanglish: Blending the languages

BY KARA SPAK Staff Reporter

They speak in English and en espanol.

And overwhelmingly, today’s young Latinos also speak a third unofficial dialect: “Spanglish.’’

“One day it’s going to be its own language,” joked Vanessa Quintana, a 22-year-old Columbia College senior, of the Spanish-English hybrid. “My closest girlfriends are not Latino, but even with them, when I’m text messaging, I’ll throw in a Spanish phrase.”

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[POSTED BY: DAISY ALEJANDRA CUEVAS]

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