Re: Question about Spanish

foggytown wrote:

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
foggytown wrote:

Dear Group,

I am doing some research for a short story and perhaps I can find some
assistance in here. Question: are there countries once colonized by
Spain where the daily spoken language is now a form of Spanish which
has so degraded that it would not be understood by Spaniards or other
(former) colonies?

Please don't say "degraded." It suggests that the language is somehow
inferior or inadequate. Whatever the social circumstances of its
speakers, the language is fully as expressive as that spoken by any
Castilian.
--

I wonder if you were a Castillian you would feel the same?

I'll take a wild guess and, to take an example from Englissh [as you
might spell it, given your <Castillian>], the only language of which I
can legitimately make such a judgment, and suppose that you consider the
language of hip-hop to be "degraded."

Eminem's use of it is superb. Immensely expressive.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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