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Re: Whiteness?

From:Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 5, 2000, 6:04
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. ====================================== Tom Wier | "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero." ======================================