Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Is English the only language that is butchered by the people speaking it?

April 19, 2010 by  
Filed under Language

There is so much slang and terrible butchering of the English language when spoken, and written, in the U.S. Does this exist in other languages such as Spanish or German, by the people who speak it all the time?

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One Response to “Is English the only language that is butchered by the people speaking it?”
  1. Meilien says:

    Language abuse is pretty appalling in the US amongst native English speakers. Particularly speakers from ethnic communities. No offense, but African American teens these days speak a language that can only loosely be called English. Australians and British English are also pretty bad for this.

    American-Spanish is also pretty bad for this, worse than European Spanish. You also get a log of this kind of thing in Japanese, particularly with teens mimicking foreign words using Phonetic Japanese and Katakana.

    The French government thinks that it’s pretty bad in France and actually has language protection initiatives, though in reality the French language isn’t nearly as bad for this as English.