Top ten ‘English’ words invented by the Spanish
How Spanish people are reinventing Shakespeare’s tongue…
See www.thelocal.es/galleries/Culture/twisted_english
There are lots of examples – click on the pictures in the gallery too, and note the correct English in the explanation under the picture.
Anglicismos are often not real English!
Let’s ask a question:
How do you say ‘un parking’ in English?
Answer: A car park (or parking space, if not in a car park).
For example: There aren’t many free car parks in Benidorm.
You have to pay at a parking meter to park in most city-centre parking spaces.
Parking meter (ticket type)
Reblogged this on TEFL in Spain and commented:
My favourite is ‘footing’ – what’s wrong with jogging or running?
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Yes indeed 🙂
Another amusing one was to hear ‘relax’ used as an anglicismo-noun and not as a verb: “Yes, we was [were!!] doing the relax all the weekend” instead of “Yes, we relaxed all weekend.” Arrrgh!
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