Languages such as Portuguese, Czech, Swedish, Polish, and Greek, all arriving in the United States in the form of a pastiche of vernacular and usually rural dialects, pass under the radar of metalinguistic commentary [. . .]. (2) Lipski further states the following regarding the effect of English on Spanish: Outside of the United States, the situation of the Spanish language in the U.S. is often entangled with anti-imperialistic political postures that assume as axiomatic that any language and culture arriving in the United States will be overwhelmed by Anglo-American values, and will be denatured, weakened, contaminated, and ultimately assimilated by the mainstream juggernaut. (19) English is perceived as such a threat to the integrity of other languages with which it interacts that governments of nations feels compelled to defend their languages from corruption—so does English suffer similar corruption from contact with other languages? Lipski states that the interaction of English and Spanish in the United States has been viewed as detrimental to both Spanish and be may “generally English” (1). That true, but since the alleged contamination of other languages by English is a direct result of the domination of English in the world, I do not think that the process is always reciprocal. The biggest threat to English, however, comes not from other languages but from its own native speakers. There is no organization such as the or the Académie française to protect from corruption and to make decisions Real Academia Española English regarding the adaptation of the language to fit the needs of the modern world. If such a
Languages such as Portuguese, Czech, Swedish, Polish, and Greek, all arriving in the United States in the form of a pastiche of vernacular and usually rural dialects, pass under the radar of metalinguistic commentary [. . .]. (2) Lipski further states the following regarding the effect of English on Spanish: Outside of the United States, the situation of the Spanish language in the U.S. is often entangled with anti-imperialistic political postures that assume as axiomatic that any language and culture arriving in the United States will be overwhelmed by Anglo-American values, and will be denatured, weakened, contaminated, and ultimately assimilated by the mainstream juggernaut. (19) English is perceived as such a threat to the integrity of other languages with which it interacts that governments of nations feels compelled to defend their languages from corruption—so does English suffer similar corruption from contact with other languages? Lipski states that the interaction of English and Spanish in the United States has “generally been viewed as detrimental to both Spanish and English” (1). That may be true, but since the alleged contamination of other languages by English is a direct result of the domination of English in the world, I do not think that the process is always reciprocal. The biggest threat to English, however, comes not from other languages but from its own native speakers. There is no organization such as the Académie française or the Real Academia Española to protect English from corruption and to make decisions regarding the adaptation of the language to fit the needs of the modern world. If such a