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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP - My Latino nanny has said it's pretty bad Spanish when were all around the Wheaton costco area together.  Not a dialect or colloquial, just uneducated.

But I'm sure PP will come up with yet another excuse and avoid the real issue. [/quote]

"uneducated" is a derogatory term for colloquial and/or dialects.  If you think about stereotypically "uneducated" ways of speaking English, they are colloquial to the community in which they are spoken, and sometimes also rise to the level of a "dialect."  The truly gramatically incorrect/"bad" Spanish is more likely to be spoken by kids who have lived here for a long time and are actually English dominant but are speaking Spanish with their families because the older generation is Spanish dominant.  My HS Spanish teacher (in the 1990s) would joke with a particular student when he would go to visit his family in Miami and tell him "don't come back here speaking that Miami spanglish.  We speak Spanish in this classroom."  The more English dominant, the more likely to have "bad" Spanish.
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