Re: Whiteness?

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>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.
I _never_ said it was bad English. I'm speaking of people in Spanish class
who pronounce things with an American "valley/californian" accent when
they know how to pronounce things "correctly" in Spanish. I dont mean in
normal conversation in English. (it's excused AFAIC. When i'm not trying
to speak Spanish, i say Spanish words the way I say other words in English)

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