Re: Question about Spanish

foggytown wrote:

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?

If he were a castilian he wouldn't be in a position to judge, since it's postulated that the language is unintelligible to spanish speakers, now, would he?
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