No one speaks Spanish -- it's Mexican

You need not go to Spain to learn that the Spanish language is classified as a "Mexican language" by the European countries, including Spain. via El Paso Times

[plea]

So does that mean no one speaks, English, it's american?

[Ajepa]

There are many dialects of most languages. I had a hard time at first understanding England english and Spain spanish is different from Mexican spanish. Just listen to flamenco music and get a Mexican to try to translate it.
Rohayhu Wendy.

[Yeah right]

Louie why don't you give up?

[Yaa Yaa]

It's roots are of Spanish orgin, it was Spain who ruled over Mexico, it is the Spanish language. You don't go to school and learn Mexican, Panamanian, Cuban or whatever, that is just crazy. As for Spain they say it is Spanish but a very poor improper version, much like red neck Yankee American English. The Brits know the American messed up their language with their rubbish speaking abilities. But they do not deny it is English indeed!

[Soldier First]

In my trips through Spain, I spoke the spanish I learned at home in EL Paso. Of course I had to make some language adjustments, but spanish and mexican were the same.:)

[Henry Parra]

Language is always evolving, any language. As we go global we learn new dialects of our neighbors, some not so close, yet that is the beauty of philology. I have been told I speak an archaic Spanish. It works for me and I still do not give up in communicating. I have had teachers say Castillian is the correct, but what about Galician, Catalan and Basque and God knows what else we brought here long ago. Lets just get over it, when in Rome do as the Romans do and so forth, worldwide!

I don't like pachucismos , but I understand some. I don't have to use them, however. Viva la diferencia, y viva culturas, but let's keep talking, or trying. Respect one another, always.

[Galician tourist]

I heard and learned to understand Galician much more readily than I do Spanish (Mexican), although Galician is quite different from Castillian Spanish. So how does Madrid communicate with the rest of Spain? In Mexican?

[TITO]

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[RainyDay]

According to this article I (from Mexico)would not be able to communicate with my parents who are from Spain.

The only thing that really annoys me is when people say "carpeta" instead of alfombra.

[El Chucoan]

For all you alleged professores that are experts in the Latin language, in El Chuco, the language is not Spanish or Mexican, the language is called SPANGLISH.

[Yeah right]

What is your claim to fame? Brain damage?

[QVO]

The border speaks its own language, any dummy can hear that on a daily basis.

The dollar bill speaks all languages.

[Hugo]

It is not Spanish, it is castillian. There is a lot of other languages in Spain.

[RainyDay]

Hugo wrote:

It is not Spanish, it is castillian. There is a lot of other languages in Spain.

Correct my mother is from Tarragona and she speaks both Catalan and Spansih.

[Hermes]

español, la.

(Del prov. espaignol, y este del lat. mediev. Hispani?lus, de Hispania, España).

1. adj. Natural de España. U. t. c. s.
2. adj. Perteneciente o relativo a este país de Europa.
3. m. Lengua común de España y de muchas naciones de América, hablada también como propia en otras partes del mundo.

(D.R.A.E)

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CONSTITUCIÓN ESPAÑOLA (TÍTULO PRELIMINAR, Artículo 3)
1. El castellano es la lengua española oficial del Estado. Todos los españoles tienen el deber de conocerla y el derecho a usarla.
2. Las demás lenguas españolas serán también oficiales en las respectivas Comunidades Autónomas de acuerdo con sus Estatutos.
3. La riqueza de las distintas modalidades lingüísticas de España es un patrimonio cultural que será objeto de especial respeto y protección.

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[InGodWeTrust]

The only language everyone speaks in El Paso is when it comes to the Almighty Dollar

[Mr Giblets]

In Colombia they don't call the language Espanol,
they call it "castellano". I have not yet heard that the Spanish call their own language "Mexican".

But soon you will find "ebonics" classified as a real language. What next ? Chimplish?

[DonnieMarie]

Mr Giblets wrote:

In Colombia they don't call the language Espanol,
they call it "castellano". I have not yet heard that the Spanish call their own language "Mexican".
But soon you will find "ebonics" classified as a real language. What next ? Chimplish?

Chimplish?-- Well Bush does seem to speak his own language.

[Pancho Smith]

In Mexico they speak spanish, in El Paso we speak spanglish. Just listen to how well our youth speak spanish, thats if they speak spanish at all.

[SINALOENSE]

Poes en Chinola Nos Vale Verga ablamos Como Sea Plebes.......