21.1527, Qs: Terminology: Words with Halves from Two Languages

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Subject: 21.1527, Qs: Terminology: Words with Halves from Two Languages

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Date: 28-Mar-2010
From: Gazi Berlajolli < berlajolli at yahoo.com >
Subject: Terminology: Words with Halves from Two Languages
 

	
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:07:23
From: Gazi Berlajolli [berlajolli at yahoo.com]
Subject: Terminology: Words with Halves from Two Languages

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I would like to know whether there exists a term in linguistics used to 
describe a word written half in one language, say English, and half in 
another, say Albanian. I am working on an article involving this topic. (I 
am not interested to go so far as to even a possible existence for such 
words written half in a language using the Latin script, and half in 
another language using a non-Latin script).

I further understand that this sort of spelling may arise often from error, 
as a failed attempt of spelling correctly in English as a foreign speaker, 
e.g. 'fotocopy' in many shops offering the service of the photocopying 
machine.  

Yet this is also arising from the need to further branch out some 
recently acquired English loanword into other parts of speech; e.g. 
'cool' as a fancy word of approval, developed then into a 
noun/adjective cool + er (pronounced like 'air' in 'hair'), and further into 
an -ism: cool + er + izëm. Now the spelling tendency here would be: 
coolerizëm, although in Albanian spelling, letter C stands solely for the 
affricate /ts/. Yet, no reader, if they were to see the word written, would 
pronounce it as ['tsulerizm], unless jokingly. 

Now, are there any terms for the first, unintentional (e.g. 'fotocopy'), 
and the second, intentional cases (e.g. 'coolerizëm') of such mixed 
spelling, or at least one term for both, that you are aware of?

Thank you in advance,

Gazi Berlajolli 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Sociolinguistics




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