Comments for Diana Dudgeon

Comment on About Diana by Diana

Diana — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:57:51 +0000

Thank you!

Comment on About Diana by Oscar Ramirez

Oscar Ramirez — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 04:00:56 +0000

Hi Diana, I feel so proud of what you doing, is always confortable to find some one whom can help our community. Thanks for all you do.

Comment on Speaking Spanglish by Diana

Diana — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:38:22 +0000

Thank you for reading! Glad it helped. Saludos

Comment on Speaking Spanglish by celita

celita — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:44:48 +0000

Found you through the blog chain, first with Bringing Up Baby Bilingual, to Multilingual Mama, to Spanglishbaby… So glad I did. Thanks for sharing. These conversations about Spanglish and language mixing/switching are unturfing a lot of insecurities and memories, but it is a good thing.

Comment on Speaking Spanglish by Do you Franglais? What code switching means to me. | Multilingual Mama

Do you Franglais? What code switching means to me. | Multilingual Mama — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:13:01 +0000

[...] who find themselves somewhere in between. A number of posts on the topic (including this & this) got me thinking about this since falling off the OPOL bandwagon and needing to sort out how I am [...]

Comment on Speaking Spanglish by Diana

Diana — Mon, 23 May 2011 10:40:55 +0000

Thank you, Shawna!

Comment on Speaking Spanglish by Shawna

Shawna — Tue, 03 May 2011 12:10:44 +0000

Fantastic!!! You are truly an inspiration.

Comment on Speaking Spanglish by Melanie

Melanie — Mon, 02 May 2011 04:09:33 +0000

I also agree that mixing languages between sentences and phrases isn’t spanish. it’s codeswitching. I typically will do it grammatically correct like ‘ven aqui so I can tell you lo que vamos a hacer”. It’s just mixing languages. Spanglish isn’t necessarily false cognates either to me, such as embarazada, because bilingual people will know what embarazada is. To me spanglish is “watcha” when someone tells me to watch out for a car, or “parquear” instead of estacionar. I talk like this with certain people in certain contexts, but the people typically know what the academic word is. What is “true spanish” or “true english” really? Aren’t they just both bastardized languages, being mixed with, created by, influenced by other languages? At one point the word almohada could have been considered “spanarab” or something, but it’s a regular word now, que no?

Comment on About Diana by Vince Alarid

Vince Alarid — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:36:38 +0000

I am hoping this message gets to Diana. My name is Vince Alarid and I have been trying to find my families’ relatives. I had an Aunt Ruth from Mexico City or somewhere4 in Tlaxcala.

If you can, please write back at my email address vjflorida@gmail.com

Comment on Oh, Boy! by Diana

Diana — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:27:10 +0000

Thanks for the love guys! I thought it would be amusing to share a bit of my best psycho moments. I actually feel very comfortable, confident and happy about this mommyhood idea. Hugs and kisses to you both.