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Originally Posted by JohnZ
Just curious. Whats wrong with speaking Spanish in this country? Almost every major city has an enclave where the "predominant" language spoken is Spanish. In some Florida towns and cities it is the "dominant" language spoken. I lived in south Florida 27 years ago and the dominant language then was Spanish and it still is. How about L.A., Tucson, Phoenix, El Paso, Del Rio, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Albuquerque Las Cruces...just to name a few places?
This migration has been going on for quite some time. In New York it was Puerto Rican migration. South Florida, Cuban....and the rest now Mexican. I don't understand the the topic of this post....is this a surprise to you guys?
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Good points, John Z. Think what English must sound like to native German
http://german.about.com/library/blvoc_gerloan.htm , French
http://french.about.com/library/bl-f...glish-list.htm , Italian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...Italian_origin or Spanish
http://spanish.about.com/cs/historyo...shloanword.htm speakers as so many words from each of those languages have crept into the English language over the past few centuries. It would be hard to know how you pronounce many words if you put every word into the local way (like that of the US, whatever that actually means) of pronouncing words
http://ask.metafilter.com/25605/Funny-Native-Accents. Then you have local dialects and variations in pronunciation
http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialLnx.html within each language. I know that I could not often understand someone from Virginia when they were talking with their local accents. From what I have heard, each Borough in New York City also has its own lingo. Pronunciations of certain words as well as slang probably also varies within a city as large as New York City.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_dialect
Press 1 from Virginian English. 2 for Valley speak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valspeak English (Los Angeles). 3 for Minnesotan English
http://wikitravel.org/en/Minnesota . 4 for south Texan English. 5 for Bronx English. etc.
And, for those people who speak the Queen's English in different parts of Great Britain, I often have a hard time understanding much of anything they are saying. I often have to put the English subtitles on in British movies just to get what they are actually saying in various English movies. I can usually understand Simon Cowell on American Idol, but he seems to be an exception.