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By Gerald Erichsen, About.com Guide to Spanish Language since 1998

More examples of officially acceptable Spanglish

Thursday December 4, 2003
If you want to see the extent to which English is infecting the Spanish language, take a look at this paragraph:
Una señora deja su bolso de nobuk en el clóset del hall del club empresarial donde voy a dar un speech. En el living me saluda el presidente de un holding que fabrica chips, y me presenta al director de marketing, el cual afirma trabajar full time y manifiesta estar obsesionado por el exceso de stocks, por lo que ha decidido montar un stand en la feria sectorial.
Those sentences are from an account by Antonio Marayo in La Nueva España — and Marayo notes that every word in those sentences is acceptable Spanish according to the Diccionario Real Academia Española. Read Marayo's article... (Source: La Nueva España)

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