You literally live in California, and likely enjoy quesadillas with salsa. What's English about any of that?https://twitter.com/pattym/status/753124851976732672 …
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I agree we pronounce it like there are other letters there but we don't add nonEnglish letters to alphabet at least not 2 date!
@aurabogado -
Too late. We already write quesadilla—writing the Spanish letter ll, which is pronounced similar to y.
@pattym -
2 Ls are still two Ls written the same way as English. Putting two of them together doesn't make a new letter. But a new sound.
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anyway, I do and did see your point. It's just that our keyboards and written language isn't likely to add a whole new letter.
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but the AP has not. Which is the issue.
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Being that I'm the one who started this conversation about AP, I know AP is the issue.
@pattym -
But you repeatedly defended AP and made a larger argument that keyboards (and life) somehow can't handle ñ, when they already do.
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I'm not saying we shouldn't or couldn't either.. Just that AP style reflects current common or "standard" journalist standard.
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And I'm saying that standards aren't objective: they're created by all-white groups of people.
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As the number of Spanish speakers grow, those rules look more and more absurdly out of touch with reality.
@pattym -
The rules are completely normal linguistically speaking. All languages are clumsy with loan-words / foreign-words.
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Now I want a quesadilla.
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