Opinion: Playing politics with the English language in Puerto Rico
For the island’s more than four million residents, language has status and identity repercussions.
There is something fierce and delicious, almost edible, in the alchemic ways of Puerto Rican Spanish. Boricuas don’t merely speak their very own brand of the language of Cervantes with an aspired “s,” a nasal “n” and a guttural “r.” They seem to channel Al-Andaluz and Africa with every inflection and sound. They dance with words that melt into each other, producing a beautiful melody of elliptical patterns.
