into our culture. Today, when you telephone a company or government agency, chances are fairly high a voice with a lousy Spanish accent will cut in and say something like, Si dica Espanol, punchola la numero uno key, por favor." Translation: "My half-sister's first name is Punchola." Which tends to get nobody anywhere, phone-wise.

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