Raul Moreno
English 100
Cerritos College
Post:17

How to Tame a Wild Tongue

This was a pretty interesting read for me being hispanic. I've grown up speaking standard English while hearing a few of the other dialects mentioned by the author thanks to my "chicano" family. I can't say I agree totally with the author when it comes to some of her ideas about the evil white man, though I do understand her sentiments about a masculine, biased Spanish language. My grandmother's primary language was Spanish, but was very tenacious about my not speaking Spanish as a child and I can't say that I'm angry or resentful for that. Her efforts to start my English speaking early and rigorously have led to my present eloquence that reared its head even as I was a young child. I do admit, I'd have loved to know more about my culture and even taught the spanish language as a child, when it would have been easier to learn but the way I was brought up had many benefits that are ever present for me.