LatinaLista — Comedian Bill Santiago is well known for using language to make people laugh. Now in his new book Pardon My Spanglish: One Man’s Guide to Speaking Habla (Quirk Books 2008), Santiago applies that comedic talent while serving as historian, teacher and translator as he guides readers through understanding the evolution and the unofficial [...]
Debate site lets people get involved with the political process — in two languages
LatinaLista — In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a presidential debate tonight and both candidates will be there linguistically duking it out to show who has a better handle on foreign policy. Yet, since it is the 21st Century, the days of just sitting on the couch, watching the debate and yelling at the TV [...]
New children’s book blog targets bilingual books and songs
LatinaLista — There’s a new book blog in cyberspace these days. Yet, unlike Latina Lista’s own Bookshelf that basically reviews non-fiction books for the adult market, the Latin Baby Book Club (LBBC) reviews books — can you guess — for children. Yet, the LBBC has more than just book reviews. The site also carries reviews [...]
Spanish words are the keys to releasing new lock
LatinaLista — In this Internet age, everyone averages at least 5-10 passwords. When it comes to remembering passwords, words are a lot easier to remember than a number combo, unless it’s a special date. So, news that there is now a device that lets people set words to unlock it versus rotating the cylinders to [...]
Accents rule: Spanish-speaking internet site gains victory over “typo squatter”
LatinaLista — The internet has long been associated as the (forgive the pun) domain of the United States, or English-speaking countries. Why? Well, for one thing — the language. Creating domain names in English is no big deal. English is straightforward using only letters. There are no tildes or accents that hover above and which [...]
An easy test of rhetoric to prove the sincerity of one presidential contender
LatinaLista — As the presidential candidates stumped their way across the country from LULAC to NCLR, delivering a slightly altered version of a speech they gave the week before, Latino voters, as all voters, are faced with an interesting dilemma. The dilemma is trying to decide who is more sincere when delivering canned rhetoric. Though [...]
