The sounds of Spanglish
Stavans, Ilan
of the sick and dying, physicians and nurses, themselves fall prey to the despair of a Trumbull or an Atkins. It is a steadily downward path from there. "If we continue to seek with our present...
...ILAN STAVANS how "sick" it really is...
...Hence, they belong to that new branch anymore for supermarket, but "marketa...
...Though it must, like all of us, finally bow to death, medicine must never directly assist our dying...
...566: Commonweal...
...Medicine, and the mindset that supports its never-ending quest for "a cure," must realize that its own hubris has contributed to the loss of trust among patients and would-be patients--ultimately, all of us...
...Even when the individual feels his or her life no longer has meaning, has been deprived of a sense of autonomy, or should not be held hostage to someone else's definition of life's value, society cannot legitimate assisting or accelerating that individual's premature death...
...Apparently, in at least of Women...
...Even if the larger meaning of life is no longer readily apparent to me, its bearer, its significance nonetheless remains entwined in the larger skein of human endeavor and divine intention...
...His priests reported that men were telling them to lay off, that these were / I nonreligious topics, and that if they con- n August, diocesan papers ran a is right about this failure...
...REPORT ON HISPANIC AMERICA THE SOUNDS OF ANGr NEITHER CERVANTES NOR SHAKESPEARE ho speaks Spanish in the United States...
...The truth is that if a from the U.S...
...The topic was "Spanish and the Media The story of Spanish is the story of its various pasts but also in the United States...
...The result might be an affront independent scholars, all professionals from the various fields to Quevedo and Borges, a bastardized yet authentic version of that shape the language daily...
...In providing medical treatment for critically ill patients, the choices made must be proportionate to the total well-being of a patient, and the means chosen must be reasonable...
...Turkey: Yavsatuzlasi...
...and are the second-fastest growing minority after the Asians and Pacific Islanders, are taking a long time to learn English...
...Then even the ancient cardinal principle of medicine--Do no harm--will be made to seem archaic and fall to the logic of technologized medicine...
...Nor is human life merely the possession of the one who bears it...
...The Supreme Court, in Cruzan, recognized a patient's right to die, a position in keeping with traditional medical and moral ethics...
...women and children without interference paper it was entitled "Real Issues Curran cited one chilling example of from his church...
...But "letting die" is totally different from euthanasia or state-approved physician aid-in-dying...
...A one of our dioceses, he does...
...Ultimately, of course, it is a gift, willed and sustained by God...
...but the King who is the king of all kings...stamped every man in the mold of the first man, yet not one of them resembles his fellows," thus a teaching of the Midrash...
...Or rather, who speaks what kind of Spanish...
...Hispanics, who according to the 1990 census total more than 22 million in the U.S...
...To rip it out prematurely is to endanger human solidarity by 564: Commonweal impairing more than this single strand, cutting it off from the weaver's cloth...
...for one into their day-to-day communication...
...Some months ago I attended a conference at the University Not yet, at least...
...it is a glaring tinued, they would withdraw financial sup- column by Dolores Curran, a omission...
...If we continue to seek with our present obsessiveness.., ever more control over our bodily fate, we can be certain of ever greater despair when we fail to achieve it...
...And one of those futures, I think, is advertising agents, journalists, writers, educators, editors, and being shaped right now around us...
...He began by educating the priests in his diocese to the extent HITTING HOME of the problem, encouraging them to preach CAN THE CHURCH HELP...
...Though our own understanding of this is rooted in a religious reality, that Christ has triumphed over death, and so shall we, it is an understanding that also has to be nourished in the best and most generous instincts of civil society: Our care for the sick, the vulnerable, the dying is a mark of our deepest character...
...Argentinians, for instance, of being a Hispanic author and writing fiction in the U.S...
...It is because of the interrelated nature of human life--its broader solidarity and spiritual dimension--that human beings have an instinctive interest not just in the maintenance of them- selves and the continuation of their immediate families and friends, but in the prospects for human life and the solidarity of the human community...
...We debated the situation of Spanish the same language of Columbus--who by the way, didn't know in this country, and some showed signs of distress after realizing how to write and spoke a terrible Spanish...
...Louis: Catholic Health Association...
...on the sinfulness of alcoholism, abuse, and incest, and offering parish-based support groups...
...What is morally obligatory depends on what is proportionate and contributes to the patient's total good" (Richard M. Gula, "Principled and Virtuous Care of the Dying: A Catholic Response to Euthanasia," St...
...If it is possible its failure to use its teaching power to covered to his surprise that two of the great- it means that the church will be at odds preach the sinfulness of this violence...
...Does the Catholic writer whose column is a homily inveighing against wife or child Catholic male claim the right to abuse syndicated nationwide...
...It is an inherited gift, and as such, has meaning not only for oneself but for those who bestowed it, those who have shared it, and those who will follow...
...It need not...
...And those credentialed to protect life are being licensed to take it...
...Okaloacochee (Fla...
...His or her value is incommensurable and inherent...
...Curiously, because of the money and attention Nabokov, cannot write fiction---only criticism in anything but placed on Hispanic media in this country, people in Caracas, their mother tongue, although they recognize that the mere term, Venezuela, or Santiago, Chile, who watch Hispanic television "mother tongue," is indeed problematic...
...Simon & Schuster...
...Wales: Ystwythand Clwyd.And surely the people of Zyudostinkskiy (a Soviet island in the Caspian) would be more comfortable with Xiachengzi, which of course is in Heilongjiang, which of course is in China...
...Human life does not derive its unique value merely from its usefulness--whether to oneself or to others...
...Venezuela: Waukarlycarly...
...Each person is unique, never to be repeated...
...they could borrow such sweetly flowing syllables as Quonochontaug (R.I...
...Petersburg, we invite the Soviet peoples, out of concern for our tonsils, to get rid of some other place names, e.g., Yakustsk, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Borisoglebsk, Dneprodzerzhinsky, etc...
...of Southern California...
...In the article, Curran wrote what might have happened if you had...
...It was a revealing symptom: It showed Central Americans, who have sought asylum during the eighties how Spanish-speaking media workers, although conscious of in the Southern United States and have just begun to adapt lin- their social and educational role, don't speak an unaffected lan- guistically...
...Thus, the changes here have a strong echo Spanish nor English, and no trade publisher would take the risk all over the world...
...Spanish to be read in Barcelona, Mexico City, or Buenos Aires...
...In the latter case, society is being asked to approve a form of state-sanctioned murder...
...There are other resources elsewhere: Mexico: Xicohtencat...
...There were linguists invited as well as of its intriguing futures...
...aplicar a la universidad" instead of "solicitar entrada a la But others, although admirers of Joseph Conrad and Vladimir universidad...
...in family life and marriage...
...When, if ever, have you heard port...
...Chillikodratna (Alaska...
...Medicine must both acknowledge and teach us its limits in staving off for a time our natural end, our own mortality...
...There are various explanations, the most important of which is that as a cohesive group, the community is in constant change...
...Interestingly, Latin American Short Stories (Holmes and Meier...
...on cable channels are beginning to use the same writer wanted to effectively reproduce the street language spoken malapropisms, transforming the Spanish laguage in their own in Los Angeles or New York City, the choice would be neither individual countries...
...they don't say "voy of Hispanic literature whose authors must be translated into a estacionar el auotmovir' but "voy a parkear el automovil...
...Many are less the product of the interracial mixture between the Spanish of my colleagues, like Oscar Hijuelos, the author of the 1990 conquistadores and the native Indians, and therefore have a more Pulitzer Prize winner The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Europeanized Spanish than that of, say, Mexicans, who have or Felipe Alfau, who was nominated for the 1990 National Book integrated pre-Columbian terms and names (Aztec, Mayan, etc...
...Rather, it must do the opposite: Show care for that individual by lessening his or her suffering to the fullest extent possible...
...To shield the fragile hope of those who are dying against the despair that can cloud our inescapable mortality is a necessary and ceaseless task, for physicians, for everyone...
...What does this mean...
...Tonganoxie (Kans...
...ET CETERA LUBRICATE YOUR LARYNX Now that aprece- dent has been set, with the change from Lehingrad (which was at least pronounceable) back to St...
...of the widespread and increasing violence priest of her acquaintance was a diocesan Nevertheless, Curran evidently believes against women and of the equally family-life director who offered workshops that these hostile males can and should be widespread abuse and neglect of children...
...In our local beating...
...They are part of the "sickness" they are looking to cure...
...She est needs listed by respondents were help with the prevailing American culture...
...of publishing their craft in the amorphous jargon called Spanglish...
...As a result of educated by the church out of their She took the church in America to task for confidential surveys he initiated, he dis- predilection for violence...
...From the U.S...
...Daniel Callahan, WhatKindofLife...
...For a man stamps many coins in one mold and they are alike...
...He changed his emphasis...
...Here the guidelines of traditional moral theology have much to offer...
...In the Roman Catholic tradition, human life is considered sacred and inviolable, but it is not considered an absolute...
...All the participants had different origins Ilan Stavans, a Mexican novelist and critic, is the editor of (Peruvians, Guatemalans, Spanish-speaking gringos, Mexicans, the forthcoming Tropical Synagogues: An Anthology of Jewish- Uruguayans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Iberians, etc...
...Puerto Ricans are the lowest on the economic the panelists had to refrain from using neologisms--and for that, scale within the Hispanic minority as a whole, even below the were often ridiculed...
...OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy with alcoholic spouses and their abuse...
...Modem Chicanos, or Mexican- United States...
...In general, Hispanics in thing, their audience is wider and their endeavors can be remu- Chicago or Los Angeles, or New Jersey, don't say "mercado" nerated more handsomely...
...Award for Chromos, have chosen to switch to English...
...The vocabulary used by these four groups depends on the Being a novelist and a scholar, I talked about the difficult art the particular historical circumstance...
...guage...
Vol. 118 • October 1991 • No. 17
