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The People's Tongue

The Vocal Fries

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Spanglish Is Unstoppable

I think it's so beautiful the way that my dad speaks spanish and every time I'll ask him because I did not actually grow up speaking spanish like that. He must be part of a generation that was told that if they don't speak full French Spanish then they have betrayed that language or they are inefficient, he says. That creates a kind of psychological you know not in your brain that the you are not quite authentic you are not legitimate," she adds.

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