The Kinks’ English, Being an Account on the Life of a Bilingual Individual on a Monolingual World

Authors

  • Leonardo Villarroel

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/ESLA.61887

Abstract

So my good friend Loreto is now engaged to be married. Strike that. My not-really-thatgood-of-a-friend/kind-of-an-acquaintance-really (but-hey-she-did-help-me-get-my-current-job)
Loreto is now engaged to be married. Or so her Facebook status claims. Maybe she is one of those people who get lost in the translation of “engaged” for the not-as-definite Spanish “comprometido”.
Come on, we’ve all had one of those; the one who then writes those puzzled replies as to why people are congratulating him or her. But Loreto put an awful lot of pictures of her and her wouldbe husband so she must be serious, right?

Author Biography

Leonardo Villarroel

After being bitten by a radioactive spider, Leonardo Villarroel divides his time between Santiago and Copiapó, in spite of actually being an English Masters student at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He is currently putting the finishing touches on his debut novel, after which he will most likely proceed to make the initial moves on his sophomore novel. You can follow his bilingual ramblings via the 55lv twitter account or send him all sorts of anthrax-ridden e-mail to cartasaleonardo@gmail.com. He will reply lengthy, as he is wont to do.

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Published

2023-06-22

Issue

No. 1: June 2011

Section

NON-FICTION

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