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The barbarism They are vices of language that consist of pronouncing or miswriting certain words, or using improper words, because they believe that they have a certain meaning, when in fact their meaning is different. For example: naides, guevo, you went.
The Spanish language (like all the others) has a series of resources so that communication, whether orally or in writing, is effective, which partly depends on the receiver correctly understanding or decoding the messages.
Most people in school are acquiring the basic vocabulary and normative knowledge that govern their language and are able to construct words and sentences by speaking and writing appropriately.
Examples of barbarism
Here are some very common barbarisms as an example, with the corresponding clarification of which is the correct word:
- ‘You bought’ for you bought.
- ‘Guevo’ per egg
- ‘Inauguration’ by inauguration
- ‘Nobody’ by nobody
- ‘Picsa’ for pizza
- ‘Custion’ by question
- ‘Interperie’ by bad weather
- ‘You were’ why you went
- ‘Both' for both
- 'Jrito' by fried
- ‘Made it'So he kicked him out (told him to leave)
- 'Hebrew' by Israeli (born in Israel)
- ‘Pour’ for pouring
- 'Hindu' by Indian (born in India)
- ‘Trumpeting’ for tripping
- 'Addition' by addiction
- 'Except' for except
- It is 'Lego' in the field (it means that you are not an expert in that subject, but it is usually used when meaning otherwise)
- 'Libido' for libido
- ‘There were’ for there
Characteristics of barbarisms
The concept of barbarism It tends to have a pejorative nuance because, if we look at its etymology, the barbarian has to do with the violent, the rustic or the careless, and conveys the idea that barbarism will be used by those people included in the rather low sociocultural strata, not endowed with the language skills to identify the correct paths of language.
However, in many cases barbarism does nothing more than follow the general rules of language and apply them to cases in which it is not arbitrarily appropriate to do so, so confusion is the most frequent outcome.
It is no coincidence that the barbarisms are:
- Typical mistakes of children. For example: Itrumpeted (instead of I stumbled)
- Wrong conjugations of verbs. For example: I know (instead of I know) or Do not fall (instead of Do not fall)
- Poorly constructed plurals. For example:My feet hurt (instead of My feet hurt)
- Somegentilic adjectives. In these cases, there is an additional problem, which is that the same locality proper name in its shortened version (for example:Santiago) can refer to different cities (S. del Estero, S. de Chile, S. de Compostela), and these assume different names: santiagueño, santiaguino and santiaguense, respectively.
Other barbarisms
The other idea of barbarism has more to do with the essence of the term and corresponds to those words that are used erroneously due to the simple ignorance of their correct spelling, pronunciation or meaning.
It is clear that the most immediate origin of these barbarisms is the intergenerational transmission of these mispronounced or misused words, which will then be repeated with the same error.
In some cases, barbarisms are more closely related to the typical pronunciations of a certain region and the influence of other languages in multicultural societies, which adds one more factor in determining the standard error.
It can serve you:
- Lexical families
- Slang
- Regional lexicon and generational lexicon
- Localisms (from different countries)
- Neologisms
- Xenisms
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