When reading through the blogs Jack and Jill and VivirLatino I have noticed the language used in both the blog itself and the comments use language specific to the community.
An example from Jack and Jill is the first comment on a picture of Sasha and Malia Obama at the inaguration day parade looking bored. Because this community is targetted towards the African American audience, this kind of language is probably seen as acceptable.
The blog VivirLationo incorporates a spanglish language approach to their blog. For example their description section starts out with the Spanish greeting "Hola!" with the description following being in English. This language says that he blog is intended for bilingual readers, though people familiar with the language and its slang could probably also read it without much difficulty.
Between these two blogs, Iwould feel more comforatble commenting on the second, this is probably because I am Latina. When reading the first comment on Jack and Jill I felt uncomfortable and thought that I never post slang like that on a blog even with the ethnic invisibility of the internet.
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Based on the link you provide, it seems you are highlighting slang used by one of the readers who are commenting. So there are two questions: 1) Does community-specific slang drive away people outside of that community? 2) Should sites monitor the language used in the comments?
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