Collection: 2055

In October 2055 I traveled to the United States, a country that at that time had a Hispanic population of 610 million people and a new language in the making: Spanglish. But not the Spanglish of “call me back” ( call me back ) to return a phone call, “cut the yard” ( cut the yard ) if you are going to mow the lawn or “vacuum the carpet” ( vacuum the carpet ). when you want to ask to have your carpet vacuumed, but real Spanglish , a true fusion of English and Spanish within the reach of all Americans.

Many years before, the Puerto Rican writer Salvador Tió Montes de Oca, creator of the term “Spanglish”, had proposed the verb TREEpar to describe the action of climbing a tree . With that same sense (of humor) new words were being created that were equally understood by Spanish and English speakers in the United States of America, such as “aBEEja”, which does not require mastery of two languages ​​to know which hymenopteran insect it alludes to. OR FATiga, to allude to the fatigue caused by being overweight.

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