C2, Don't get hoity-toity with me. The people I grew up with were Mexicans and they were proud to call themselves Mexican, as they should be. In the barrios of Houston, what was spoken, was not Castillian Spanish, but a dialect all it's own, with origins in Castillian. The language spoken in the interior of Mexico, is not Castillian Spanish either. It is a derivation that belongs to the "New World" only. Once I was in Porto Bello, Spain with a Mexican friend of mine, and he had as much difficulty in communicating in Spanish as I did, and he grew up speaking Mexican. If you are from Puerto Rico, or Cuba, you do not speak Castillian either.
I was not trying to denigrate any group by saying what I did. Perhaps you have a chip on your shoulder, or were not aware of my history with the Mexican people of Texas. ~H~ |
