Sentence examples for linguistic blend from inspiring English sources

Readers who do not speak Spanish can only approximate the linguistic blend as they follow the written text.

I'm with Rhian Edwards on 'chillax' - "the most unnecessary and obnoxious linguistic blend to have ever been coined".

For good reason: it would be another millennium before descendants of the patricians and plebeians of Ancient Rome would learn of Mesoamerica, let alone sample the delights of xocolatl (a linguistic blend of Mayan and Nahuatl for "hot drink").

For example, Chicano Texas Spanish and Tex-Mex involve such a linguistic blending.

(Linguistic scholars more recently have renamed forms like these "linguistic blends," proving to no one's surprise that Carroll was wittier than most of my colleagues).

This blend of linguistic precision and what appears to be narrative chaos has earned Ms. Schwartz a number of fervent fans, most notably Edward Albee, another playwright who enjoys poking around in the detritus of the English language.

A Song to David (1763) is a rhapsodic hymn of praise, blending enormous linguistic vitality with elaborate structural patterning.

Spanish and English mix and stray across linguistic boundaries, and the blending of cultures is always an uneasy work in progress.

Such a consciousness also allows for the possibility of "linguistic terrorism"—the creative blending of disparate languages and cultures in ways that work against the monolithic character of each (1987, 75 86).

William B. Helmreich, a college professor, is also uncomfortable with the way that "differentiation has become a sin," leading us to treat the holidays as if they were mashed potatoes, blended in a linguistic Cuisinart.

In Taiwan, with its mixture of migrants from both Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, the linguistic situation was similar; although the resulting blend in the southern city of Tainan differed from the Xiamen blend, it was close enough that the missionaries could ignore the differences and import their system wholesale.