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Actually, they sound more like Mexicans. If you can get it in your area, try to watch a novela called 'Alborada". It's a historical novel about Mexico during the early 1800s. It'll give you a good idea of Mexico during that time. There are other historical novelas about Mexico you can either get on tape or CD. It covers costuming, vanilla plantations, duelos, thieves, people with titles, religious orders, Jewish relations, Catholic Church, commerce with central America, la Nao de la China, ports of call, commerce with other latinamerican countries (ties were closer than we think), cochinilla, horses, carruajes, swordfighting, births (how registrations were not aways true), legitimate and illegitimate, morals, etc. Regarding hermanito, manito: this terminology is found throughout the Spanish speaking world because of the priests telling the new converts that they were hermanitos, so is that particular pronounciation of acequia in just the way described below. Puerto Ricans and Cubans are not the only ones who pronounce it that way. I think that particular affectation of speech -aspiration of sounds/vowels- is traced to a specific area of Spain, the name of which escapes me right now. There are some studies done by the University of Puerto Rico documenting this. The same goes for the word colorao. That is rather common throughout latinamerica. Elvira style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> |
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