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.
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We had a big injection of Latin, and then French. Why not another Romance language?
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!
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
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.
Every time I hear Spanglish it just sounds like 'You pinches gringos corrupt everything you touch'
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.
[relevant]
Johnny Depp going undercover as a Mexican on 21 Jump Street. Madre de dios!
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.