[Magdalen] Current Events.

[Jay Weigel]

If you think Puerto  Rican Spanish is "inelegant", for heavens sake don't
go near any Dominicans, or worse yet, Cubans. Cubans speak like they have a
mouthful of hot rice!

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 11:37 PM cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

> My Spanish study was at the undergraduate college level, and at that time
> (1950's)the University of Wisconsin-Madison taught only Castillian
> Spanish.  They reallylooked down their noses at New World Spanish, which
> even at that time I thoughtvery shortsighted.  My Hispanic other half
> laughs at me when I say somethingin this Castillian Spanish.  OTOH I
> privately find his Puerto Rican Spanish to bequite inelegant.  There is a
> sort of mumbling monotone sound to him when he istalking on the phone with
> family and friends.
>
>
>
> David Strang.
> In a message dated 5/1/2019 10:33:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>
> I suspect that "Castilian" Spanish nowadays exists only in hallowed memory
>