Right after writing the previous post, a thought occurred to me: I was thinking about the assimiation of Hispanics with Anglos and their proximity to Anglos in cities. But in most cities in the U.S., there are large black communities. What about the interaction of Latinos with the black community? I have to confess that I have no idea how that is going. Do you, or anyone else out there? How does or will that impact on language, given that very many blacks have a peculiar dialect of English?