Re: The Spanish Language in the US- Taboos and Complexes.

Neeraj Mathur wrote:

To tie this into an earlier thread, it is these sorts of people who are
likely to be most offended if called 'desi': they would consider speaking
Hindi or Panjabi or so on as being 'desi' - rural, uneducated, poor, working
class - while speaking English is urbane and sophisticated. They would
probably use desi to describe other South Asian immigrants who don't speak
English as well as they do, and anything that, in general, is Indian and not
Western.

Yesterday I discovered there's a magazine called "New York Desi" -- a
writeup in it of the chef was posted at the Indian restaurant I had
lunch at (Tandoori II on Funton St. Manhattan).
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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