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Post by Beckett Moon on Sept 1, 2022 12:37:53 GMT -5
In the short story, Anzaldua lists the dialects that she is able to switch between, these include,Standard English, Working class/slang English, Standard Spanish, Standard Mexican Spanish, North Mexican Spanish Dialect, Chicano Spanish, Tex Mex, and Pachuco. She describes how she accumulated most of the dialects throughout her upbringing by speaking to those around her, as well as family and friends. I would distinguish these languages by the percieved formality of them. While some use more casual language and slang, others are more traditional. The "informal" languages are often criticized and the speakers are put down. Anzaldua speaks about how she has encountered this type of belittlement first-hand.
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Post by joshuakane on Sept 2, 2022 12:04:04 GMT -5
Anzaldũa states that Chicanos of today speak many languages, some of the languages the speak are: Standard English, Working Class/Slang English, Standard Spanish, Standard Mexican Spanish, North Mexican Spanish Dialect, Chicano Spanish (with the regions of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California having different variations), Tex-Mex, and Pachuco. The latter five are considered "home" languages to Anzaldúa, as the are used in conversation with her Brothers, Sisters and friends. She picked up Texas style Chicano Spanish from her parents and in the valley, and uses it in talking to her mother and little brother. The former languages on the list, like English having been picked up in other fashions, such as school, and work environments, or Standard Spanish, having been learned from Spanish and Mexican literature are less popular with Anzaldũa and are used with people she is less acquainted with. When speaking naturally to people she is close to, Anzaldũa weaves her words using different threads from her identity and may switch from Spanish to English at whim.
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Post by sunny on Sept 2, 2022 12:58:32 GMT -5
The eight languages Anzaldua says she speaks are: Standard English, Working class/slang English, Standard Spanish, Standard Mexican Spanish, North Mexican Spanish Dialect, Chicano Spanish, Tex Mex, and Pachuco. I would start off sperating all the different variations of Spanish; Chicano Spanish, Tex-Mex, and Pachuco being the top 3 because 6-7 are closest to her heart. These 3 are what she's picked up from people her age and talks freely with her family memebers. Standard Spanish and North Mexican Spanish which she says is mainly spoken with "los recien llegados" followed by North Mexican Spanish Dialect with Mexican immigrants and braceros. Lastly Standard English, and working class slang English which are not used outside of school, media and job situations.
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Post by Emma Ramos on Sept 2, 2022 15:03:11 GMT -5
Anzaldua speaks Standard English, Pachuco, Working class and slang English, Tex-Mex, Standard Spanish, Chicano Spanish, Standard Mexican Spanish, and North Mexican Spanish dialect. Anzaldua says that the closest to her "heart" are Tex-Mex and Chicano Spanish. She has picked up standard and working class English from media, school, and job situations. She also picked up Chicano Spanish by her parents and other Chicanos, she speaks it to her mom, aunts, younger brother, and older relatives. Anzaldua by speaking in Spanish she was told to "go back to Mexico, where she belongs," or got in trouble at school. By her speaking all these different kinds of languages she learned how to use them with certain people and also how not speak with others, not many people can understand what she speaks which is why she has these limits with who she talks to and how.
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Post by abosak on Sept 2, 2022 23:45:12 GMT -5
There are a bunch of languages that Anzaldúa speaks. She says she speaks Standard English, slang English, Standard Spanish, Standard Mexican Spanish, North Mexican Spanish Dialect, Chicano Spanish, Tex Mex, and Pachuco. Almost all, except Chicano Spanish, are widely used and accepted. She talks about how Chicano Spanish stems from a need from the people that don’t identify themselves as either Spanish or American, so they created Chicano Spanish so that they could feel like they belonged somewhere. She talks about many of the struggles she had speaking Chicano and how many people looked down on people who spoke this language. This caused her to struggle to take pride in her language and culter, with this being a main talking point in the story. Many of the other non-standard languages (North Mexican Spanish Dialect, Tex Mex, Pachuco, and Slang English) all originate in the original languages, but they formed through a difference in culture.
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