Re: Whiteness?

Barry Garcia wrote:

> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> > Hispanic loan
> >terms, like <hidalgo>, <barrio>, <rodeo>, etc. show /ou/ as expected.
>
> *shudder* and I think Spanish with a Californian surfer/valley accent is
> bad.
But how is that bad English?
(a) All these words have been assimilated as English words, not Spanish.
(b) The only American dialect that has a pure vowel [o] is that of Minnesota
and the Great Lakes region, and those people are made fun of for it.

I can almost guarantee you that most of the people you hear will use
/ou/ or something like it.  Hence: it's not bad English.

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