Hi there! this post is aimed to present you the most common Anglicisms used by the young Chilean people. This list contains the most recurrent Anglicisms according to a research carried out in Santiago in 2011.
Brother: Expression denoting a friend
Bye: "good bye"
Cachai: (catch) to understand.
Chance: luck, opportunity, probability
Chequear: to check out
Cool: expression used to denote something entertaining
Comfort: comfort
Crazy: Loco
Curso: course, evolution.
Deleción:deletion
Enfatizar: to emphasize to highlight
Feedback: feedback
Feeling: Feelings
Flash: fast
Bye: Good bye
Hello: Hi
Hipy: A person of unconventional appearance, typically having long hair and wearing beads, associated with a subculture involving a rejection of conventional values
Hobby: Recreational activity
Junior: Young person
Lider: Leader
Man: Man
Miss: Miss
Money: Dough
O.k.: O' kay
Party: Party
Randomizar:To randomize
Status: Status
Water: toilet, john, head
Estrés: Stress
Do you know some other ones? Sure you do!... Share them with us
What a nice list Mario! I thought of BREAK too!! Young people in Chile always say "tomemonos un break" hahahahaah we say that everyday!! The most incredible thing about anglicisms is that we do not even notice that we use them, and we use a lot of anglicisms!! Thanks for sharing this list Mario, and thank you for making us see that English is amazingly fused with our Spanish.
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