¿Habla espanglés, anyone?

Question

Yo sé que el espanglés tiene mala fama entre muchos hispanohablantes, pero aquí en California y sobre todo en Los Angles se usa mucho. Casi todos mis colegas de la Universidad, cuando estamos charlando en la cafeteria o en los pasillos, usamos con frequencia el espanglés. Su uso es bastante divrtido y aveces nos reímos a carcajadas al oir una nueva invención lingúística. Pero a veces --no muchas, se encuentra algo de belleza en la obra de algunos. He aquí una muy buena poesíia, que me hizo llorar al orila por primera vez. Fue escrita por dos chicas norteamericanas, de una segundaria del estado de Wisconsin. (No sabía que el espanglés se extiendiera hasta el estado de Wisconsin.

La Guerra de las drogas.

Todos escuchen

We have something to say-

Hay más en la vida

Drugs are not the way!

Abran los ojos Look all around you No sean locos What you see will astound you! Miren el mundo It slowly falls apart-- Hay muchos drogadictos We need a new start! Drogas no son respuestas to the problems in your life-- Quédnse correctos you can always reach new heights! ¿Necesitan ayuda? We speak with one voice-- NO USEN DROGAS Make the right choice!

¿Qué les parece? Nice, huh? I wish I had these girls in MY class!!

What appears above is not the format I put it in. I used the usual poetry format with each line separate. Spanishdict smushed it altogether in a paragraph. You have to say it to appreciate it. Cae muy chevere a los oidos. - Daniela2041, Nov 7, 2014

I made a typo which the site won't let mecorrect. The first line should read - Daniela2041, Nov 7, 2014

The first line should read "Todos ESCUCHEN we have something to say-----" - Daniela2041, Nov 7, 2014

I don't know why it wouldn't let you edit. I hope you don't mind my doing a small edit. :) - rac1, Nov 8, 2014

This is cool!! - rac1, Nov 8, 2014

I kept pounding the key resulta que nada. I can't even put in accent marks in this comment mode. Maybe it's my computer. In my origial question I went into edit mode tried todo it y NADA! - Daniela2041, Nov 8, 2014

Can you edit MY posts? Hijole! - Daniela2041, Nov 8, 2014

Very nice, Daniela. Adolescents can sometimes express the agonies they experience better than anyone else. Espanglés for poetic license is always acceptable. - Jubilado, Nov 8, 2014

Te lo agradezco, amigo. - Daniela2041, Nov 8, 2014

Once you hit "edit" you should be able to edit anything you want. However, in the "comment section" you can't edit anything. Sorry about that. :) - rac1, Nov 8, 2014

Answer 1

Yea I know how to speak espanglish, but mostly speak spanish

Answer 2

I like it. (But I'll stick to trying to learn Spanish first!)

Where do you get the icons? - Daniela2041, Nov 8, 2014

For the wink, I just typed a semicolon, then a dash, then a right parenthesis. It converted it to the icon when I submitted it. - Winkfish, Nov 8, 2014

Answer 3

There is a language of the hungarian emigrants in Canada or perhaps in USA too, named hunglish . They couldn't learn properly the English and they are mixing it with the words from their mother tongue. There are quite humorous examples of this mixtura.