Reading became a solitary experience after the invention of the printing press. The internet is making reading, once more. a collective experience. As readers interact with the text and maintain contact with other readers. authors and the web, through searches, messages and emails, the interpretation of what is read/written continuously changes. These immediate interactions provide the opportunity to know how each of these readers and writers think and respond to the texts: limitless, constant, dynamic qualities as a path into the writers and readers cultures, idioms, abilities and conceptions of what they are reading and writing at any given moment. At times, both readers and writers enter into realms, mysteries, possibilities that a fixed conception of language cannot allow when the text is seen as a finite entity. When José wrote “cógelo suave” to Daniel in Uruguay, the latter one immediately blocked the phrase, searched for its meaning in the web’s Spanglish dictionary and knew that he was not been told to get fucked softly.
(taken from the book formatted in .pdf, My Bilingual New York, June 2019)
(taken from the book formatted in .pdf, My Bilingual New York, June 2019)
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