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On 05 Mar 2005, at 01:48, Gregory H. Bontrager wrote:
Infinitive: lûnchar = to have lunch
I was just skimming through the beginning sketches, and when I came to this, I felt it more likely that this infinitive would be "lûnchear". I checked with my Colombian wife about how she would borrowed the English verb "to lunch" and "lunchear" was the definite result.
I often find from experience with my Spanish-speaking friends and family that some types of verbs borrowed straight from English tend to get an -ear infinitive ending. To "chatear" on the internet, for example, is pretty popular :) and usually requires you to "cliquear" with "el maus" :) I've pretty much internalized many of these kinds of "rules", so I expect the effects from both Spanish-speakers adopting English and English-speakers adopting Spanish would tend to merge.
But those are just my thoughts before I've finished the first cup of coffee :)
Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/