"RafaMinu" <rafaminu@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:1158521005.442933.292940@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 2- Spanish is as native to the US as English. In fact, it has been
> spoken uninterruptedly there since much earlier than English has.
You are mistaken, so far as "native language" is
concerned, i.e. that first learned in childhood and
still understood. The native language of US nationals
is about 80 per cent English.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)