Is Spanglish Allowed?

Question

What are the site rules when it comes to Spanglish? I notice quite often people that mid sentence switch languages, then back and forth which makes it very difficult to fluently read. Is this allowed?

This is something you could PM Heidi about too. - --Mariana--, Sep 20, 2009

Answer 1

I am not sure all of us could otherwise answer or ask questions at all, Extrano, if limited to one or the other language.

When I post something which includes a bit of Spanish, that bit may be all that I know and it is usually in the post to either offer a translation (usually from my dictionary) OR in case I indeed have it wrong...I hope I will be corrected.

Is not Spanglish an actual form of idiom that is spoken by people who are perhaps fluent in both languages but living in one or the other country in which the other language is spoken? I can imagine that it even has rules?...not conscious ones, of course, but ones anyone who speaks Spanglish might instinctively follow.

In posts, sure it makes sense with examples and translations, but when explaining something, they just ramble off in another language mid sentence for no apparent reason - Preguntón, Sep 20, 2009

Answer 2

I know I'm a good for switching back and forth between languages, and I don't mean to do it, acually! Where I live you so many different forms of people...cubans, puerto ricans, american born latinos that only speak but so much spanish, etc. It's a very common feature of spanish here. I'd personally just prefer to speak one or the other, but in real life, it's near impossible where I live. But if I'm with natives of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Peru, etc...we never switch back and forth!

Speaking just for myself personally, I think its awesome that you are so comfortable in both languages that you use whichever one best expresses that fragment of thought. I find your posts very entertaining to read, and I hope to someday be... - Valerie, Sep 20, 2009

... as thoroughly bilingual as you are! :) - Valerie, Sep 20, 2009

Answer 3

There are people here who don't care for my manner of speech...and I don't even use spanglish, in as much as my way es mas sabroso que se puede aprender aca o de un libro. Bueno...my opinion is I truly enjoy spanish in all it's forms from the most low to the most high, and would rather enjoy you sharing your method of commincation!

You came to mind immediately when I saw the title, bro. I love the way you post! :) - Valerie, Sep 20, 2009