MEXICO CITY \u2014 Mexico\u2019s president on Monday defended the apparent insertion of what teachers have long considered grammatical errors into school textbooks.<\/p>\n

Copies of the new textbooks posted on social media show them using words like \u201cdijistes,\u201d long considered an incorrect or uneducated way of saying \u201cdijiste,\u201d meaning \u201cyou said.\u201d The same goes for \u201chicistes,\u201d in which the final \u201cs\u201d is also considered not correct. The forms are almost never used in writing, but pop up in speech.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cIt is important to make students conscious of the fact that there are different ways of speaking, in order to avoid judgements based on ways of speaking,\u201d according to an insert instruction to teachers in what appears to be an early grade-school textbook.<\/p>\n

Despite decades of censure by teachers and grammarians, the verb forms persist in Mexico, generally in poorer and less-educated neighborhoods. The verb forms are not tied to any particular region or ethnic group.<\/p>\n

One textbook seen in images posted on social media also features terms long considered pleonasms \u2014 like \u201cs\u00fabate para arriba\u201d \u2014 phrases that repeat themselves, somewhat like \u201ccome up, up here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Public Education Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Some parents\u2019 groups expressed concern about the changes, despite the fact the new textbooks are not widely available yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that the formal education system recognizes, legitimizes, promotes things that are learned informally on the street or at home is worrisome,\u201d said Jos\u00e9 Antonio Cabello, of the activist group \u201cSuma Por la Educaci\u00f3n.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not that what people learn on the street or at home is bad, but rather that school is there to perfect and polish it,\u201d said Cabello. \u201cSpelling, syntax, writing, are learned in school, and that is the type of vales the Education Department should be promoting.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador, who frequently accuses his critics of being \u201cracist\u201d or \u201cclassist,\u201d confirmed that the changes have caused an uproar.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow there are even polemics over the new school textbooks, because they do not want to include the way the people speak, they want us all to talk like physicists, with technicalities,\u201d L\u00f3pez Obrador said at his daily press briefing. \u201cMexico is a cultural mosaic and language has to do with the roots of ancient cultures.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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