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+The \textsf{Spanglish} ``dialect'' is in fact a compromise between the use of the
+Spanish language in writing and the default \LaTeX\ layout,
+designed by and for US-Americans.
+You may see it as a form of Spanish with a lot of English code switching
+---or viceversa.
+There are no mathematical features enabled, and there is
+(probably less than) minimal Spanish language support for text,
+activating Spanish hyphenation, captions, date, frenchspacing,
+indentfirst, symbolic footnotes, uppercase roman numerals,
+and a few shorthands.
+All other typographic decisions are left to other macro packages
+according to user's taste (or lack thereof).
+
+There is a conscious effort to make this ``language'' upwards compatible with
+the ``standard'' spanish language definition, so the shorthands implemented here
+are but a very narrow subset of the standard Spanish language:
+those strictly necessary to handle Spanish hyphenation properly,
+and a few extras to straighten the text a little in a Spanish layout.
+So, in a sense, this ``language'' is a very stripped down or ultra-sloppy
+version of the ``standard'' spanish.ldf, mostly as a fallback in case something
+goes very awry with it.
+
+Questions, comments? Drop me an email at jlrn77 at gmail dot com
+
+December 28, 2010.