Comments on: Borrowing and Corruption http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=174 A Blog about Words and Language(s) from alphaDictionary.com Tue, 21 May 2013 19:53:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 By: Edward http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=174&cpage=1#comment-149323 Edward Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:24:21 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=174#comment-149323 Don't even get me started on the hatchet job we American English speakers have done on Latin and Elizabethan English. I don't know how we can look ourselves in the eyes. The horror, the horror... How dare we incorporate words and phrases from Spanish without ensuring they remain exactly as they were in Torquemada's day? Don’t even get me started on the hatchet job we American English speakers have done on Latin and Elizabethan English. I don’t know how we can look ourselves in the eyes. The horror, the horror…

How dare we incorporate words and phrases from Spanish without ensuring they remain exactly as they were in Torquemada’s day?

]]> By: Teresa Montejo http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=174&cpage=1#comment-80644 Teresa Montejo Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:11:44 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=174#comment-80644 As a native from Spain, I could present the same argument: the language of Cervantes has been greatly corrupted by Hispanic speakers. The Spanish spoken in Latin America is a dialect of the Castillian language, not a pure Spanish Castillian. As a native from Spain, I could present the same argument: the language of Cervantes has been greatly corrupted by Hispanic speakers. The Spanish spoken in Latin America is a dialect of the Castillian language, not a pure Spanish Castillian.

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