Comments on: “If you are stolen, call the police at once” http://netmap.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/if-you-are-stolen-call-the-police-at-once/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Wed, 23 May 2012 22:08:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Eva Schiffer http://netmap.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/if-you-are-stolen-call-the-police-at-once/#comment-391 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:08:58 +0000 http://netmap.wordpress.com/?p=225#comment-391 Dear Ji-Young,
You’re right, the constant mixing does sharpen the language and often the strange results actually fit the new challenges much better than the “propper English” way of saying something. Interesting that English lends itself to this process so much easier than for example my native language, German.

]]> By: Ji-Young Park http://netmap.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/if-you-are-stolen-call-the-police-at-once/#comment-390 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:16:00 +0000 http://netmap.wordpress.com/?p=225#comment-390 Hi Eva,

I’m a native speaker of two languages, American English and Korean.

I grew up in Los Angeles where we have Konglish (Korean-English), Spanglish (Spanish-English), and so on.

It’s a process of adaptation. New situations, new objects, new ideas, etc., being adapted to a native syntax, framework, etc..

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
–George Bernard Shaw

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