Hi Jeremy, I've been watching and commenting on some of your videos. The great couple you showed in "Unique Spanish dialect of New Mexico & Colorado is fading away" have a great connection and humor that probably makes up so much of their lives. Their humor and gestures are familiar with my own relatives and even myself so I was pleased to see them and contemplate their reflection of myself. My family is from El Cerrito/ La Garita and Mora but we have been in Denver since 1941. I've only been to San Luis a few times but have known people from their my entire life since they also came to Denver..Take care..!
Beautiful interview! Thanks for sharing it. It came to my mind that what happened with the word "torque" (how San Luisians started to refer to the bird "turkey") is similar to what happened with the word "guajolote", which is how Spaniards started pronouncing/writting "huexolotl" (which is how the nahuas people called the bird turkey). Language is so alive, indeed. I wonder how languages will evolve 300-400 years from now.
My family is pretty removed from our culture from s. CO and n. NM since the few generations when my grandparents moved to Utah after WWll. My parents know random words their parents said and I always thought my dad was just saying a funny word he heard his dad say when he says “put on your shortes”. We say hito and hita healthily, but it’s funny to find out that shortes has been passed on without us even knowing it and it’s not just my dad being funny. Haha 👍🏽
Dr. Jenkins is the best and makes linguistics relatable and fascinating.
Hi Jeremy,
I've been watching and commenting on some of your videos. The great couple you showed in "Unique Spanish dialect of New Mexico & Colorado is fading away" have a great connection and humor that probably makes up so much of their lives. Their humor and gestures are familiar with my own relatives and even myself so I was pleased to see them and contemplate their reflection of myself. My family is from El Cerrito/ La Garita and Mora but we have been in Denver since 1941. I've only been to San Luis a few times but have known people from their my entire life since they also came to Denver..Take care..!
Beautiful interview! Thanks for sharing it. It came to my mind that what happened with the word "torque" (how San Luisians started to refer to the bird "turkey") is similar to what happened with the word "guajolote", which is how Spaniards started pronouncing/writting "huexolotl" (which is how the nahuas people called the bird turkey). Language is so alive, indeed. I wonder how languages will evolve 300-400 years from now.
Please record the old speakers as much as possible!
My family is pretty removed from our culture from s. CO and n. NM since the few generations when my grandparents moved to Utah after WWll. My parents know random words their parents said and I always thought my dad was just saying a funny word he heard his dad say when he says “put on your shortes”. We say hito and hita healthily, but it’s funny to find out that shortes has been passed on without us even knowing it and it’s not just my dad being funny. Haha 👍🏽
Once I was hita…
The USA needs to embrace bilingualism, it will be of huge benefit to citizens
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼!
Loosing your heritage, that is what it is.
it's more like spanglish nowdays. I fpeople wanna learn spanish just go to school folks.
Nah..learning Spanish from school won't help much