Emglish is a shit language and im saying this as a native(or almost) speaker. In sweden theres a language thats a mix of english, turkish, arabic, etc added to swedish. Languages change and evolve you know and you cant stop that.
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Every time I hear Spanglish it just sounds like 'You pinches gringos corrupt everything you touch'
Only 26% of English is made up of words of Germanic origin anyway (although they do tend to be the ones used most in everyday speech).
English is three languages in a trench coat.
Spanglish is four languages in a trench coat.
Languages shift and change over time. English, as we currently know it, has undergone several such shifts, to the point that it's less a language and more several languages dressed up in a trench coat pretending to be one. Adding more Spanish words to the language is really just a continuation of a centuries old trend.
We had a big injection of Latin, and then French. Why not another Romance language?
Esperen, es todo español?
Siempre lo fue, cabron
¿Si?
Totalmente! Francia? Español raro.. Italiano? Español argentino. Chino? Querrás decir chileno? Inglés es español germánico... y no me hagas empezar con el ruso! Потому что я не гаварю па русски
*es solo para seguir la joda, nada de esto es serio
Could be a good way to start learning both English and Spanish for folks who only speak one or the other like myself. It'll never affect me, but if it did I'd pick it up just from proximity.
Anglocentric supremacists:
“Stop speaking that weird language! Speak more English!”
Spanglish pioneers:
start speaking more English, make “that weird language” less “weird”
Supremacists:
“Not like that!”
They'd better stop using the word "language", then, as it's of Latin origin!
[relevant]
Johnny Depp going undercover as a Mexican on 21 Jump Street. Madre de dios!
America intentionally has no official language.
Before WW2 large parts of the country only spoke German, and there were pockets all over that only knew the language of where they immigrated from.
It wasn't until the World Wars and the advent of radio that everyone started moving to just English.
Hell, the town next to where I grew up still has German street signs and most businesses have their signs in German.
I think a decade or two ago they added English signs as well, but there wasn't any law that forced them too.
People being mad about this stuff, is just boomers who think history started when they were born and nothing should fundamentally change as long as their alive.
Doesn't matter if it's good or bad, they want everything to be exactly like how when they were kids. And by the time they were kids, was the big push for an English only America.
By German Street signs you mean the street names are German, or the "stop" sign is "stoppen"? I want pics before I believe that.
Stop signs still had "stop". Although for some reason I think they originally were just a red stop sign shape that had a smaller sign with the word "stop" added under it. For some reason that was a thing in rural areas for a while.
But like the signs on the corner that had the name of the street/road. And instead of street/road it has the German work for that. Streisb? I can't make an estatest or however it was spelled, but the weird capital B with a tail that means "ss" .
But after WW2 they updated the legal street names to Angelicized names, I think as a result of a larger state/national law. It was something the locals didn't want tho, and no one official was checking tiny villages, so they left the original signs up, even though that's not the name of the street anymore?
Like the town Butcher had a giant old school sign with zero English or even the word Butcher. Now there's little signs in English under all of them that says what it is. I think because they were trying to be a tourist destination, because literally all the architecture and landscape looked like you were really in 1800s Deutschland. Like, in school my German class (yeah, even towns over had the option of learning German until very recently) we took field trips there.
On a side note, my German teacher's first memory was the Allies attacking the train that was carrying her to a concentration camp, then having to escape through the woods during the fighting. And I swear I'm not even that old now.
I could probably find some kind of article on it, because the whole thing is interesting... But unfortunately I already said it was next to my home town, and man, there are some people who really don't like me on here, and I don't want to put that info out.
The same phenomenon is happening today with internet and social media affecting every nation and every culture in the world.
English is creeping in every culture and in some cases even replacing them.
It's a real shame.
pros and cons.
diversity good, communication good.
No. Diversity is decreasing if everyone is moving towards one giant monolithic Anglo-centric culture.
woosh.
yes.
diversity from many languages is a good thing.
better communication from one language is a good thing.