No, I am not referring to the crappy Adam Sandler movie. I’m referring to people injecting Spanish words into English sentences. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against the Latin American people. They are good, hard working men and women but if you plan on learning English as a second language, follow through. I thoroughly enjoy hearing people of other ethnicities speak fluent English with a sexy accent, but when you start ending your sentences with Spanish words, it is the equivalent of that guy from Wendy’s who forgets to put your fries in the bag. He knows he’s being lazy, but he just doesn’t care.
When I’m trying to listen in on the angry conversation you are having with your boyfriend on your cell phone from across the food court in the mall, nothing irritates me more than when you throw a change up and start yelling in Spanish. No longer do I know if you are spouting profanities or telling him you love him with that Latin fire you are so well known for. Yes, I realize you are “chicano for life” but here in the suburbs you say “Mexican American”. If I wanted to learn Spanish I would have done so in Junior High. And trust me, I wouldn’t move to Mexico without either hiring my friend’s little brother who can speak Spanish at a ninth grade level as a translator or pirating the Spanish version of Rosetta Stone. There is a reason that not everyone in America speaks Spanish; because if everyone did, we wouldn’t be America any longer, we would be Latin America.
