La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for February 11, 2010
February 10, 2010
February 12, 2010
Transcript:
La Cucaracha answers reader mail from Latinos, aka "self-hate mail" Reader: Mr. Cartoonist, Seriously, you make Latinos look ridiculous! Coco Nuez Cuco: Okay, in your case, maybe you have a point. Reader: Thank you!
LOL! Haven’t heard those jokes before.
Yes, I’m quite familiar false cognates, and, as a proscriptivist, I feel that Border Spanish is an abomination. Spanish survived 1000 years without experiencing any major evolution, and now American English has started to infect it.
I learned academically correct Spanish and have been told more than once by a native that I speak Spanish better than they do. Also, when living in foreign language student housing at BYU, I successfully argued the finer points of Spanish grammar with the native facilitators, and corrected the other gringos more often than they did. That is part of the source of my pomposity.
Sadly, I haven’t used my Spanish much in the last five years and, as such, mourn the loss of 2/3 of my original proficiency.