Archive: Arts & Entertainment

SMART TALK

by Dr. Tilde Cedilla

ARE CAR: At the Center for English as a First Language, we hold that if English is indeed your first language, you should speak it plainly. Speakers of English as a second language, such as myself, want to understand you.

I've often been confused by many Americans' lack of concern for our. Given the self-absorbedness of so many in this country, wouldn't they make a point of saying our?

Granted, the informal Spanish of my native Cuba sounds as if the speaker's mouth were full of marbles, but I thought America considered itself a world leader, an example for the rest of us.

Americans sound careless, ignorant, or both when they say, "That's are car," or "That car's ars."

Our rhymes with "sour." Will we soon be hearing about sar pickles?" Or bouquets of flars? The ultimate desecration can sometimes be heard around here: far tar. It took me a long time to figure out that that's Texan for fire tower.

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