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'Spanglish' Presentation - College Essays

'Spanglish' Presentation

First off what is Spanglish? Some say it's "When one switches from English to Spanish (or vice-versa) within the same sentence", usually when emotions run high. Like a mother scolding her children. For all practical purposes I am going to focus on the idea that Spanglish is neither, English or Spanish. Yet it cannot be used without the accompaniment of its parent languages. If it were up to Americans we would just add an "O" to every thing. "Takeo Outo El Trasho, Por Favor" But new words are created by pronouncing an English word "Spanish style" (dropping final consonants, softening others, replacing M's with N's and V's with B's), and spelled by transliterating the result using Spanish ...

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different words; caliente (hot to touch), calor (hot weather) and picante (hot food). Were as in English is much more concise and efficient and often confusing. The word hot can mean many different things: hot property (stolen), hot body (sexy), hot food (spicy), hot to the touch, hot weather, hot tempered, hot pursuit, hot tip (fresh news), hot air and more. It is in situations like these that Spanglish is born. For example, Instead of escribir maguina (to type) The Spanglish "Taipear" is created. And instead of estacionamiento (parking) "Parquin" is used. Replacing the 6 syllable words with the Spanglish 2 syllable words is easier to pronounce and under stood by both languages.
Spanglish my no means is "new". Its has flourished in Texas border towns as log as Texas has been Texas. "Tex-Mex" I what I first heard Spanglish referred to 8 years ago. Spanglish is by no means slowing down. The Census Bureau predicts that by 2050 1 in 4 Americans will be Hispanic. The crossovers are ...

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