Timeline for Word for heavily foreign-influenced speech?
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| Jul 5, 2022 at 3:34 | comment | added | aparente001 | @x22 - I thought about foreignism but rejected it, and I can't remember why! Glad you found a word that works. I think any reasonable listener will understand foreignism. | |
| Jul 4, 2022 at 20:07 | comment | added | x22 | I only wrote examples with Swedish for the reason that it has verb stems that are cognates of English stems and thus can be easily understood by English speakers on this forum. I was mainly looking for a language-agnostic word. In any case, your answer pointed me to "foreignism", which, according to my research, does have a meaning of "any trait, deviating from accepted speech standards, derived from a foreign language", so thank you! | |
| Jul 4, 2022 at 18:27 | comment | added | aparente001 | @GlobalCharm - agreed, it can be awkward with some language names -- I dislike Frenchism, for example -- but personally I don't have any trouble saying "Swedishism." I guess one could informally shorten it to "Swedism" -- but maybe that would be better for cultural differences rather than language bloopers. | |
| Jul 4, 2022 at 17:11 | comment | added | user205876 | I think that use of the “ism” form depends on the language it applies to, and how easy the word is to say. Anglicism and germanism are different on the tongue than swedishism. | |
| Jul 4, 2022 at 1:37 | history | answered | aparente001 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |