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Spanglish

With the growing acceptance in academia of different kinds of slang as legitimate forms of expression, it should come as no surprise that Amherst College is offering the first university-level course in Spanglish, a combination of Spanish and English. Ilan Stavans, the Amherst professor who's teaching the course, is also preparing a Spanglish dictionary. Pippin Ross reports.

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