Spanglish is a hybrid of English and Spanish used by a growing number of Latin-Americans. Spanglish has many variations
and few rules, but it is also an effortless mixture constantly expanding. It is a language rapidly developing from rejecting
the American culture and fighting the assimilating process, or from attempting to acquire a better understanding of American
culture by blending it with the other. Spanglish is an important linguistic phenomenon in the United States that has rarely
been approached from the linguistic point of view (Roca).
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| Spanish-speaking immigrants are influenced by the English-speaking country they live in. |
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| Spanish + English = Spanglish |
Spanglish expresses something much more broader and interesting than just a glistch in language. Spoken Spanglish is
only a verbal manifestation of a powerful force that has been incubating in America since the beginning of the postwar era,
and will almost surely be a powerful determinant of U.S. culture in the twenty-first century. - Ed
Morales (Living in Spanglish)
Works Consulted
Roca, Ana and M Cecilia Colombi. Mi Lengua. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press,
2003.
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