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Blake, Wm. Canto VI, object 6. 1803.

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A new language is emerging in Miami due to cultural intermingling between Spanish and English speakers. This new dialect takes aspects of Spanish sayings and directly translates them into English while retaining the existing Spanish structure of the phrase.

For example, “bajar del carro” becomes “get down from the car”—not “get out of the car” as you would expect to see in most American English dialects. Importantly, linguists have noticed that native English speakers have adopted this dialect.

A study asking people what they thought of the dialect discovered that those in Miami found it “natural” but people living outside the region found it significantly more alien.

Phillip M. Carter, professor: “I want Miami English to lose its stigma because Miami English is someone’s home language variety. It’s the language that person learned from their parents, that they used in school, that they hear in their community. It’s the language variety they developed their identity in, developed their friendships in, found love in. Why should that be stigmatized?”