| @LettucePrey Well I was born in Lima, Peru, went to school there till the equivalent of 7th grade, and used both robar and carro (not coche), which were taught to us as REAL Spanish words. And according to the RAE dictionary, they're also derived from Latin, so they've had a LONG history in the Spanish language (robar comes directly from Vulgar Latin, and carro, if I'm not mistaken, was used for train wagons first). I don't know why Spanish teachers would classify them as "Spanglish", though; probably to keep students from using so many cognates that then they start making everything into Spanglish.
All in all, this was a great quiz. As a linguistics major, it's always interesting to see how much influence Latin had in English and how used those words are in comparison to Germanic ones. I don't know if I'd include Hispanicized versions of English words as cognates, though, but you do with what you have. Great quiz, again! |
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