[VA_Gentleman]

And with the increase in the Hispanic population, English and Spanish are converging in America. In a few decades I believe we’ll have a separate language called Spanglish. It’s already beginning.

[achilles2000]

If something like that happens, it will be a mark of a lower class person, much like “Ebonics” today. I don’t see any movement toward “Spanglish” in the SW. Those who speak it are recent immigrants.

[bgill]

English and Spanish are converging in America

Beat me to it.

I have no clue what the author means by an American accent. Cross state lines, or for that matter from inner city to suburbs, and you're listening to a different accent.