None quite matches the historical pyrotechnics and manic Spanglish that made the life of Oscar Wao so exhilarating.

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If you hear someone talking about "going out to hanguear (hang out) at the mol (mall)", that's Spanglish.

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In the visitation room, the woman held a phone and spoke to her husband in Spanglish with a country twang.

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Very often they switch between languages within a single sentence, or borrow English words and put them into Spanish, making a hybrid known as Spanglish.

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Seven out of 10 confess to using Spanglish.

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As everywhere in Latin America, Spanglish abounds.

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"I would describe it as a combination of two great languages to create a new expression that is richer than just speaking English or Spanish, " says Cristina Burgos, who last year decided to write a blog in Spanglish.

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Ferreras and Bardusco are also the creative minds behind the HBO Latino series "Habla, " which features unscripted first-person accounts of Latinos from various backgrounds, some speaking in Spanish, some in English and others in Spanglish, a mixture of both.

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Plus, there's always Saturday night company, when you can prep the crazy sandwich recipe that Thomas Keller cooked up for Adam Sandler's chef character in the movie "Spanglish" the BLT with melted cheese and a fried egg, also known as the greatest sandwich in the history of cinema.

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