Re: CHAT: I need help with the concept "New World Spanish"

On 1 Sep 02, at 22:20, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:

>         A pity. Anyway, I'd say that if they write something that isn't
> good for peninsular spanish, it isn't good (written) spanish at all. But
> just IMHO :-) "Standard" spanish should be good for both worlds, not
> just for one of them. Exactly like english, I guess.
>
>         (I don't know if I would have a different opinion if I were from
> south america; take all this with a grain of salt :-))
My brother-in-law, who is from Peru, told me about a kind of "Académie
Espagnole" in Spain which keeps the language pure and sets rules, and
says that those rules are respected in South America as well. I'm not
sure whether that means that peninsular Spanish in general is
acceptable throughout the Spanish-speaking world. But at least it was a
comment from a speaker of SA Spanish which didn't dismiss out-of-hand
the validity of peninsular Spanish as a standard form.

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>