Saturday, July 28, 2012

72% of Hispanics strongly believe that the damages the Spanish Spanglish


In a survey conducted by the portal SaberHispano.com concluded that 72% of Hispanics believe that the harms Spanglish Spanish. In fact, many claimed that the use of this hybrid language in Latin America represents a loss of purity of Castilian.

Verbs as a liquid, or wach mopear have become part of everyday vocabulary of many Latinos in the U.S., even though its proper use would drop, mop or viewing. In the rest of Spanish words such as parking, rent or fax not only commonly used, but have even managed to get a place in the Dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy.

However, the phenomenon of Spanglish is more than just the use of Anglicisms, including the exchange of complete sentences. Either way, 77.5% of respondents said they occasionally used English phrases or words in their daily lives.

Interestingly, only 27.2% thought it would be necessary to establish formal rules for appropriate use of Spanglish with its own grammar and spelling, who also admitted that they would like to learn if there is a school of instruction in this language.

When asked why they thought that people use Spanglish, a 53.3% venture to say that was because one can not speak either of the two languages, while 63.7% attributed it to laziness when think the words in the correct language.

A 40.9% of respondents considered that Spanglish is, in short, a natural evolution of language, as it did with other languages ​​in the past, while 35.5% consider it a misuse of language.

When respondents were asked about the impact of Spanglish in literary culture, almost 60% (57.5%) of them responded that books written in Spanglish are a bad education for children or, simply and bluntly, a lack of respect for the language.

The truth is that there are already many English words from everyday language rooted in the millions of Spanish speakers. These are terms such as steaks, rally or football manager, whose strict Spanish equivalent, football is widely in use. Those are the things of linguistic exchange.

Poll: http://www.saberhispano.com/mundolatino/encuesta-spanglish/

Source: SaberHispano.com (http://www.saberhispano.com)

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