1. Social Prestige and the English Language in Porteño Spanish
On the one hand, I will deal with some expressions in formal Spanish characterized by two features: a) At the grammatical or (more often) semantic level, objections can be raised concerning its "appropriateness" as "standard" Spanish; and b) these expressions are unmistakably borrowed from an English language source and –in many cases "literally" or clumsily- translated into Spanish. These expressions can be found both in spoken (usually in a formal context) and written Porteño Spanish. ... Because in Spanish, the word that should have been used is bi...
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