(Versión en español aquí)

From Wikipedia:

Spanglish refers to the code-switching of English and Spanish, in the speech of people who speak parts of two languages, or whose normal language is different from that of the country where they live.

In our case, we’re referring to the switching of English and Spain’s Spanish (known here as Castilian) you’ll find all over the place at Venera7. See, this section tries to explain a bit why it that so.

English is the new Latin. Period. And not only in the Internet, but in much broader aspects of anyone’s professional or cultural life. More than ever we’re consuming culture in Shakespeare’s language and we Europeans are certainly using it as our new lingua franca. If you want to be understood by the broadest audience you have to write in english. That’s why we do it. We also think we can safely assume anyone in our country that’s regularly consuming web content can read it in english too.

But. By contrast with the Roman Empire, we are not Roman citizens. We do not share a common language that’s institutionalized in our education systems, and that means we’re far from being bilingual. This has serious implications. It means it takes us way more time to write in english than in spanish, that we have a hard time expressing feelings or reading/writing between the lines and that irony/humor/second meanings are slippery little bastards that sometimes elude our grasp. And as so you’ll find certain things are written in Spanish. Why? Because we’re tired after a long day of work, because we’re being lazy, because we’re in a rush to publish something or because it makes sense to do so. The latter is the case of news or events we want to comment that are mostly relevant to our country, or news that are are already covered until exhaustion in the english language.

We hope you understand it if you’re an native spanish speaker and you won’t have a hard time reading us. We apologize to native english speakers for the awful defiling we’ll sometimes be committing with your beautiful language.

Of course, if you want to contact us feel free to do so in the language you feel more comfortable with. We’ll try to do our best answering you.