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Pardon My Spanglish
In Pardon My Spanglish, stand-up comedian Bill Santiago chronicles the quintessentially American alegrías of his mother tongue: the quirky, hilariously improvisational fusion of inglés and español spoken by millions (even if they don’t know or admit que están doing it). With crash-course efficiency, cada página de este libro empowers your every step toward Spanglish master...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
July 1st 2008
by Quirk Books
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Bottom line: laugh out loud funny. I can't remember the last time I laughed this much through a book. I first heard Bill Santiago on an episode of Latino USA, and I was hooked from his first riff about riding the A-train through the oprima-el-dos corridor. Alerta a todos mis Spanglishistas out there: go pick up this book. If you've ever let slip a ¿Qué what?, read a bedtime story when it's time for mimí, or lived in dread of the pow pow, rest assured you will recognize yourself and your family i...more
The entire book is written in Spanglish, making the final chapter, transcriptions of Spanglish conversations at his family's Christmas dinner, a bit redundant. But I love Spanglish, and I loved the fact the Bill Santiago takes it seriously. He's a comedian and goes for the funny, but embedded among the jokes are some pretty interesting observations about the language and its patterns.
Laughed out loud. Repeatedly. My boys were embarassed to sit near me at the doctor's office. It's written in Spanglish, which was *sin duda, la unica manera en que podria haber sido escrito.*
I loved reading about using Spanglish. I totally relate, although the book was cheesy at times.
A spirited manifesto supporting the mixture of languages. Despite my rudimentary Spanish skills and the comedian's excitable attitude (you know those bouncy comedians and their persistent cheeriness even when they make dumb jokes) this was enjoyable. As he says about Spanglish: "twice the vocabulary and half the grammar."
This is certainly not a necessary read, but there was obviously some research behind it, there are some pin-prick political barbs, and a couple of decent jokes (my favorite inv...more
This is certainly not a necessary read, but there was obviously some research behind it, there are some pin-prick political barbs, and a couple of decent jokes (my favorite inv...more
I think this book is straight down hilarious, and funny.
A cute little book. There were some chapters that had me dying with laughter. I would definitely like to see Bill's stand-up act.
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