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Kate Mangelsdorfs writing Spanglish as Alternative Discourse: working against Language Demarcation says that the practice of segregating

g students in writing classes according to their language, which Paul Kei Matsuda called linguistic containment is based on the assumption that a clear line of demarcation can be drawn between the languages that people speak (113). Kate says that Spanglish has mistakenly been called a linguistic mishmash (115) as Ana Celia Zentella has noted. Kate explains that Spanglish in actuality it is a complex language that allows its speakers to strategically interact with their worlds. (115), Jaime Mejfas says rhetorical situations and strategies often include a tactical mixture of both English and Spanish (116). The reading says that the increasing use of Spanglish in the united states is an inevitable result of what happens when groups of people speaking different languages, developed as a result of the successive conquest and colonization (116), also it speaks about how English came to be in the United States English, for instance, developed as a result of the successive conquest of Britain by Germanic tribes and the Normans. (116). She also speaks about how language change has been resisted because it challenges the slandered ideology or belief that language can be made uniform for the benefit of society. Mangelsdorf writes that language is a social rather than a linguistic construct. She also expresses here dislike about how one must go to school to learn ones native language, also that standard language ideology has also led to the assumption that English-language monolingualism is superior to and somehow more American than speaking another language (with the exemption of studying a foreign language in a school setting) (117). I believe that what Kate Mangelsdorf is writing about has some truth to it because in the United States many people believe that English is superior to other languages which is not right because if you leave the United States people will not treat you well if you just speak to them in English because they dont believe that English is the superior language. But I must say that those who come to the United States should not expect for use to accommodate to them and let them do things their way. I also believe that there is no needs for us to change are school curriculum to accommodate to those who decide not to learn English.

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