A semantic analysis of the Spanglish verbs wachar and puchar

Abstract: more and more people being bilingual. Two languages that are often mixed in the United States are English and Spanish. Due to the high population of Spanish speaking immigrants, new words are being formed by mixing the two languages. This can be heard in the areas near the border between the USA and Mexico among other areas. The verb watch in English, which in Spanish would be mirar, becomes wachar, for example. In this case, they have taken the English verb with a Spanish ending which is then used and conjugated in Spanish. Another example would be puchar which comes from the English verb push, in Spanish empujar, and then the Spanish verb suffix –ar has been added. This essay will look at how these two verbs are translated into American English and Mexican Spanish and to see if the verbs follow English or Spanish semantics pattern of usage. Are they translated into more words than only watch or push and if they are, what are they? Do the Spanglish verbs follow the semantic meaning as their cognates watch and push?