MondayJune302008

After all this time, we find out wacha has no “t.” Wachale [Conjunto Is Life]...

FridayDecember142007

An article in Newsweek touched upon an issue we’ve been thinking a lot about since having to read through word after word of Senator and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo’s anti-Latinos, anti-immigrant, anti-Spanish rhetoric. What place does Spanish have in...

ThursdayOctober252007

Thanks to a reader who sent us this clip featuring Juanes and an MTV Tr3s VJ whose Spanglish makes even us cringe. (Dude, when all you’ve got is conjunctions, best to stick to English.) In the clip, we see...

WednesdaySeptember052007

We are in love with the horrific display of Spanglish in these Bud Light Ads. (Click to enlarge.) We totally get the parking one, but admit we had to look up the meaning of the word, perreo. Turns out...

ThursdayJuly192007

We were amused yesterday to stumble upon a book for sale called Learning Construction Spanglish on a site called buildersbooksource.com. From the book description: Designed specifically for those who direct Spanish-speaking construction crews. GO RIGHT TO THE PHRASES YOU...

WednesdayJuly182007

Many of us at Guanabee grew up speaking Spanglish. In fact the name Guanabee itself is a form of the dialect. So we were intrigued when this essay by Eduardo González entitled Spanglish: To Ser or Not to Be?...

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