“Mucho malo” as widely known pidgin Spanish of western Native people

“Mucho malo” as widely known pidgin Spanish of western Native people

The usual and grammatical way to say “very bad” in Spanish is “muy malo”. So then, why do we find “mucho malo” all over the place in the frontier era of far western North America, virtually always in connection with Indigenous people? Image credit: Nein Records Here’s an example: “The Americans, like the Indians, some are good—very good, and some are bad. I like the good ones, who are kind to the Indians, but the bad ones are “mucho malo.” — int…