Ilan Stavans on Spanglish

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Ilan Stavans is compiling the first dictionary of Spanglish.  He tells Steve Paulson that Spanglish is becoming an independent language, with regional differences in vocabulary and usage, and that someday a masterpiece will be written in Spanglish. And we hear a bit of “The Night Before Christmas” in Spanglish.