Borrowing - adapting an English word to Spanish grammar an

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We espeek espanglish
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• My name is Stefanie Morejón. Soy a student en
  Boston College, pero I was born en Miami.
• Mi familia speaks espanish, pero I grew up
  hablando Español at home y Ingles en la escuela.
  

iDonde estan mis llaves!?
In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue
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• Mi familia me dice that I dont speak espanish
  correctly, pero they have been en este país for
  so long que ellos no lo hablan bien tampoco.

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• Mi abuela asks me donde parquié el carro, y si I
  can walkear el perro porque ella se quiere dar un
  chower.
• Mi mama tells me to preparar dinner and to
  vacunear la carpeta so ella doesnt have to do
  it.
• Y my dad always tells me to use my brekas when I
  am driveando.

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What is espanglish?

• Code-switching - jumping spontaneously from one
  language to another in a normal conversation
  between bilingual speakers
• Borrowing - adapting an English word to Spanish
  grammar and orthography
• Direct Translation - translation of a colloquial
  English expression directly into Spanish
• Phonetic Translation -
• meeting becomes mítín
• Vicks Vapor Rub becomes bibaporú
• vacuum cleaner becomes vacuncline
• uanmortaim?

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Hello. My name is Jose.
iEy! Que tal Jose? I speak espanish tambien! De
donde are you from? Hey! Whats up, Jose? I speak
Spanish also! Where are you from?
Bueno, yo soy de Miami, pero mi familia is from
Cuba.What is tu nombre? Well, I am from Miami,
but my family is from Cuba. What is your name?
How good. Me llamo Luis. I am de Mexico. Que
haces in Boston? (Que bien.) My name is Luis. I
am from Mexico. What are you doing in Boston?
Congelandome el culo, broder. Freezing my ass,
brother.
Te entiendo. Esta muy cold. I understand you. It
is very cold.
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Phonological Adaptation

• Final Consonant dropping
• Fast food ? fas fu
• Final nasal substitution (m ? n)
• Steam stim ? estin
• Initial schwa insertion
• Speak ? espeek
• (Complete) labialization of v
• Venezuela ? benezuela
• Defricativization of š
• Shopping ? chopping

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Morphological Adaptation

• Spanish Verbalizer in English verbs
• Hang out ? hangear
• Lunch ? lonchar
• Spanish nominalizers in English verbs
• Leak? likeo or liqueo
• Park ? parkeo
• Spanish inflection for English words
• Latin(girl or boy)? Latina or Latino

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In English you say which in Spanish should
be but actually comes out as
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So
MeansWalk the dog Should beCaminar el perro
MeansWhere I parked the car Should beDonde
estacioné el carro

• Mi abuela asks me donde parquié el carro, y si I
  can walkear el perro porque ella se quiere dar un
  chower.
• Mi mama tells me to preparar dinner and to
  vacunear la carpeta so ella doesnt have to do
  it.
• Y my dad always tells me to use my brekas when I
  am driveando.

Meansbecause she wants to take a shower Should
beporque se quiere dar una ducha
this actually means to vaccinate the folder, but
is supposed to mean to vacuum the carpet Pasarle
la aspiradora a la alfombra
To make dinner Preparar la cena
Brakes frenos
Driving Manejando/conduciendo