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Experts have concluded that abrand-new dialecthas developed in the United States.
The intriguing phenomenon comes as a result of decades ofSpanish speakersimmigrating to Miami, Florida.
In Miami, there are many ways of speaking English.
In Miami English, phrases retain their Spanish structure but use English words.
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For example, to throw a party becomes to make a party.
Another instance would be for a Hispanic to say they want to climb a mountain.
For this reason, they are more likely to use something like lets go up a mountain instead.
Masterpiece,superconductor,pineapple,andicebergcome from Dutch calques.
Antibody,nostalgia,rainforest,watershed, andstandpointcome from German calques.
Rest in peace,Milky Way,wisdom tooth, anddevils advocateall originate from Latin calques.
All words, dialects, and languages have a history.
These are examples of literal lexical calques direct translations, Carter continued.
There is no reason to stigmatize any form of human language.
Doing so reflects our own limited understanding of humanity and human language, the professor stated.
I want Miami English to lose its stigma because [it] is someones home language variety.
Its the language variety they developed their identity in, developed their friendships in, found love in.
Why should that be stigmatized?
And English-as all languages-has evolved over the past 1600 years.
Speaking a dialect is something to be proud of.
What is happening is that these people are trying to ruin the English language.
He didnt twist the words around to his benefit as people do now, argued one Hispanic user.
