When I’m writing I usually have the radio, a podcast or the TV playing in the background. If it’s the radio or a podcast playing, I sometimes listen to it. At other times I know it’s there but I tune it out. My radio intake is usually GHR and sometimes a Welsh or a Spanish radio station. It’s the same kind of situation if the TV is on – sometimes I watch it, and (depending on what’s on) sometimes I don’t watch it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m currently not watching an American TV show called The Lincoln Lawyer. It’s OK – not brilliant – but watching it in a ‘moving wallpaper in the background’ kind of way is alright. The thing about this TV show is the cast occasionally lapse into Spanish because the lead character is Mexican and the show is based in LA where a lot of Latinos and Latinas hang out. But when they do lapse into Spanish it isn’t Spanish. It’s not what is spoken in Spain. And that’s an annoyance. One of the people who taught me Spanish was a Colombian. She spoke Spanish beautifully. I’ve heard Mexicans speak their native language and they too speak Spanish perfectly. So the corruption of Latin American Spanish into American Spanglish seems to be an American thing, just like they mess up English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That’s just weird. They should just go and take over Canada, then they could learn to murder French too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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