Spanglish, Why do homies speak spanglish? Options

[soto2000]

So my wife used to subscribe to Latina magazine. She canceled the subscription because most of the articles were written in splanglish. She is also hispanic, but her coconut parents refused to teach her spanish. I on the other hand speak Spanish fluently, having been raised by Mexican parents who refused to learn English. So when she told me about the articles I was shocked then disgusted. Why can't our people either speak 1 language at a time --English or Spanish -- either one, it doesn't matter, but not both. Not only does it make the person speaking spanglish sound ignorant in either language, but they make it hard for those that only speak one language to understand.

[multifaceted]

Maybe they are learning and trying to use the new words in their everyday life, but some word probably slipped their mind and they have to say it in their native language.

I'm not Spanish, but I do speak Chinglish (Chinese and English) at home. Sometimes I say things in Chinese because there are some words that identify certain things that the English language does not. I just say the Chinese word instead of using the roundabout way of saying the same thing in English. Also because I neither went to Chinese school nor had any lessons on Chinese vocabulary because my parents do not wish me to learn it. The words are just some things that I have picked up from my childhood, since I hear the Chinese word over and over again. That is the reason why I can translate Chinese into English, yet not do it the other way around. Also my parents are not that fluent in the English language, so I have to explain somethings in Chinese.

I don't find that speaking a mixture of two languages is ignorant. You cannot learn a language and be fluent in a day. It needs work.

In public though, I only speak English because that is my native language.

Some languages like Spanish, you do not need to say the whole statement in one language or catch every single word because those who speak Spanish very fluently talk very fast. As long as the main words are understood, you can decipher the meaning of the sentence and understand the person.