AMD- 5

For this AMD I chose to read through the Wikipedia article Denglisch. When studying the Spanish language in High School I ran into a fair amount of Spanglish, but never really thought about how other languages would also develop a subset of language like that. The article gave valuable insight into how Denglisch has become a common practice in many German speaking countries.

The article gives an interesting take on how German has influenced English and vice verse. The prime example of this trend is the use of the apostrophe. Although it is a very common practice forenglish speakers to use apostrophes in order to show possession, while this is not an idea practiced in traditional German. The article even gives an interesting name to this which is the "Idiot's apostrophe".

The application of this style of language is especially helpful for any new learners in a language. although my study of German is still in its infancy, from my Spanish studies I can say that Spanglish was an integral part of my learning. Although it may not be a formally recognized subset of language-- meaning that it would be able to be used in academic settings such as this class-- it is still very helpful to be able to successfully combine the two languages in order to ease the learning process.