Can you speak "Espanlish" or "Portulish"?

[rosa surf]

Originally Posted by TKO

It's a mainstay on the border in southern New Mexico and is an unpretentious, necessary means of communicating. Nobody holds it up as a paragon of virtuous linguistic morality but it helps people get things done.

I think this is the case at any border area, the Brazil-Uruguay border is the same. I personally find these areas fascinating.

[AFP]

Portuglish is frequently spoken in California by the grandchildren of Portuguese born immigrants when communicating with their grandparents. I can speak it and it doesn't sound pretty.

[rosa surf]

Originally Posted by AFP

Portuglish is frequently spoken in California by the grandchildren of Portuguese born immigrants when communicating with their grandparents. I can speak it and it doesn't sound pretty.

Are there specific words that are substituted more frequently than others? Usually (not always) it is a substitution because you can't find a word with the same meaning.

I can never seem to find the right word for 'amargado' in English when refering to a person. I guess it would be sourpuss but it just doesn't seem to compare. Lol

[AFP]

Originally Posted by rosa surf

Are there specific words that are substituted more frequently than others? Usually (not always) it is a substitution because you can't find a word with the same meaning.

I can never seem to find the right word for 'amargado' in English when refering to a person. I guess it would be sourpuss but it just doesn't seem to compare. Lol

Yes there are, the vast majority of the Portuguese speaking immigrant community in California either immigrated after the the 1960's until the late 1970's or are their descendants therefore anything that wasn't part of the Portuguese lexicon prior to that timeline is more likely to be spoken in "Portuglish". The children and grandchildren of the original immigrants from the 1960's-1970's for the most part only speak Portuguese to the grandparents. Those that are the descendants of the previous immigrant wave that ended in 1924 no longer speak Portuguese.

[Dopo]

I call it "Laziness"