What Language is American?
Saturday evening I was bouncing back and forth between the Michael Jackson special (see post above) on VH1 and a PBS documentary called "Do You Speak American?" The documentary explored American dialects from Boston to El Paso and Nashville to LA and asked fundamental questions about language, identity, and cultural norms and expectations. On Sunday after church, our family ate at a local diner where the customers at the next table spoke hardcore "Brooklyn." It was funny to hear Di and her grandmother discuss the very same themes as the documentary having not watched it the night before. But in a multicultural nation like ours, they're real. And challenging.
posted by Jeremy Del Rio @ 1/31/2005 11:20:00 AM
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