LINGUIST List 14.2778

Tue Oct 14 2003

Media: MSNBC Article on Spanglish

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Zach Wolff, MSNBC Article on Spanglish

I thought some people might be interested in this
article.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/968788.asp

Linguists get a bad rap:

"To the very stodgy members of the Royal Academy, Stavans's work only
serves to desecrate pure Spanish. Ditto say the academics and
linguists of Spanish in this country. They are too locked up in their
comfortable offices to want to see what is happening in the streets
today, says Stavans."

My linguistic education has been full of attack after attack on
prescriptivism. Who is Stavans (or the author of the article,
Paternostro) talking about?

Cheers,
Zach Wolff