The Spanish spoken today by bilingual Hispanics in South Florida has become watered down through the generations

The erosion of Español

John Echevarría, president of Miami-based Universal Music Latino, had high expectations of the young Cuban American executive assistant he hired a few years ago.

”Professionally, she was very good,” Echevarría says. “But she was almost incapable of writing Spanish.”

So until he replaced her with a fully bilingual Puerto Rican secretary, the Spanish-language record executive typed much of his own business correspondence.”*

*From: http://www.miamiherald.com
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