Summary Of How To Tame A Wild Tongue

The articles “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua and “Saying Nothing” by Catherine Ramirez center on language and the important role language play in the lives of Mexican-Americans living in the United States. As a Chicano it gives me tremendous pride when I hear the language I grew up speaking, I can only describe it as a mixture of Caló and Spanglish. My earliest memories where of my older brother and cousin saying things like “orale ese! que rollo ay te watcho!” So you can imagine my delight when I hear someone yell in a Sydney nightclub “Ese mi Norez que rollo my brotha?” while on deployment in Sydney Australia I ran into a guy who lived four houses down from me back home in El Paso. It felt good to hear familiar phrases