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An example of this lexical phenomenon in Spanglish is the emergence of new verbs when the productive Spanish verb-making suffix -ear is attached to an English verb. For example, the Spanish verb for "to eat lunch" (almorzar in standard Spanish) becomes lonchear (occasionally lunchear).
Latinos have transformed Miami in the last half century and the Hispanic influence extends to unique English phrases that a study identified as the "Miami Dialect."
For those not in the know, in the 2004 film Spanglish, Sandler's character, John Clasky, delivers a culinary masterpiece that transcends mere sustenance; it becomes a symbol of love, care, and ...
But not all of the coinages caught on and became permanent additions to the lexicon; for example, любомудрие (ljubomudrie) was promoted by 19th-century Russian intellectuals as a calque of "philosophy", but the word eventually fell out of fashion, and modern Russian instead uses the loanword философия (filosofija).
For example, Robert Pinsky is reported to have used a literal translation in preparing his translation of Dante's Inferno (1994), as he does not know Italian. Similarly, Richard Pevear worked from literal translations provided by his wife, Larissa Volokhonsky, in their translations of several Russian novels.
Yo-Yo Boing! has many examples of the linguistic phenomena of code-switching [15] between English and Spanish, as spoken by millions of Latinos and Hispanic-Americans in the United States and in Puerto Rico. [16] It is the first full-length novel to use Spanglish as a high art form. [1]
Mixing fruit into baked goods is nothing new. All sorts of recipes call for mashed banana or even applesauce. But there's something special about canned pineapple in the South, and we're not just ...
The following is a list of macaronic languages.. Alemañol (German/Latin American and Mexican Spanish); Amideutsch (American English/German) (see Denglisch); Bahasa Rojak and Manglish (Malay/various Chinese dialects/Tamil/English)