Sunday, October 21, 2001

46 Spanglish

Some dismiss Spanglish, or Tex-Mex, the mixing of English and Spanish, as a bastard tongue. You are reading a bastard tongue.
   "This phenomenon of language mixing, it doesn't only happen in South Texas," said Javier Villarreal, chairman of humanities and a Spanish professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. "Whenever we have two languages in contact, this is what happens."
   In other words, isn't it nice that we have our own language in South Texas?
   A smattering of Spanglish
   ais crim (ICE-kreem) - ice cream
   ayeteguacho (eye-te-WATCH-oh) - I'll see you later
   balun (ba-LOON) - balloon
   daime (DY-meh) - dime or money
   dompe (DOHM-peh) - to take something to the dump
   el babipin (l-BAH-bee-peen) - bobby pin
  
  

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