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Konglish (Korean: 콩글리시; RR: konggeullisi; [kʰoŋ.ɡɯl.li.ɕi]), more formally Korean-style English (Korean: 한국어식 영어; Hanja: 韓國語式英語; RR: hangugeo-sik yeongeo; [han.ɡu.ɡʌ.ɕik̚ jʌŋ.ʌ]) comprises English and other foreign language loanwords that have been appropriated into Korean, [1] and includes many that are used in ways that are not readily ...
Hanyu Pinyin. zhōng shì yīngwén. Chinglish is slang for spoken or written English language that is either influenced by a Chinese language, or is poorly translated. [ 1] In Hong Kong, Macau, Guangdong and Guangxi, the term "Chinglish" refers mainly to Cantonese -influenced English.
Poglish, also known as Polglish and Ponglish (Polish: polglisz, język polgielski; German: Ponglisch), is a blend of two words from Polish and English.It is the product of macaronically mixing Polish-and English-language elements (morphemes, words, grammatical structures, syntactic elements, idioms, etc.) within a single speech production, or the use of "false friends" or of cognate words in ...
Going Dutch. " Going Dutch " (sometimes written with lower-case dutch) is a term that indicates that each person participating in a paid activity covers their own expenses, rather than any one person in the group defraying the cost for the entire group. The term stems from restaurant dining etiquette in the Western world, where each person pays ...
Jewish English varieties. Jewish English is a cover term for varieties of the English language spoken by Jews. They may include significant amounts of vocabulary and syntax taken from Yiddish, and both classical and modern Hebrew. These varieties can be classified into several types: Yeshivish, Yinglish, and Heblish, as well as more flexible ...
As Koreans emigrate to English speaking countries, Konglish has also come to refer to single Korean words being used in English sentences by native English speaking Koreans to succinctly state a Korean cultural concept that has no adequate single word translation in English, such as Hwabyeong, Han or Hyo.
Dunglish ( portmanteau of Dutch and English; in Dutch steenkolenengels, literally: "coal-English", or shortened to nengels) is a popular term for an English spoken with a mixture of Dutch. It is often viewed pejoratively due to certain typical mistakes that native Dutch speakers, particularly those from the Netherlands, make when speaking ...
This category is for macaronic form of the English language; that is, English commingled with vocabulary and grammatical features of another (or vice versa), but short of an actual pidgin, creole language, or patois. The best known examples are probably Spanglish and Engrish . The main article for this category is Macaronic language.