Spanglish as Creole, or, "pasame los hot cheetos"

Everyone seems to be writing books about the (not) new (emerging) language of Spanglish. I got to thinking about the idea of a "creole" language, one that emerges from a blending of two languages, and then becomes a sort of pigeon and then a new language in itself with traces of the original contributors. After spending a whole lot of time in South and East LA, San Diego and Tijuana, I've heard a lot of Spanglish. And, I'd say, some ideas about border culture, bi-cultural existence and spanish barrio life can only be expressed in Spanglish.

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