IRREGULARITIES IN THE USE OF THE MODERN SPANISH LANGUAGE

Abstract

The language errors could potentially hinder the transmission of information and disturb the
concretization of the act of communication. In the contemporary context, many factors exercise influence on the
language especially the social media triggering disregard of the linguistic norms, devaluing the correct use of the
language and disrupting the normal flow of communication. These irregularities in the use of the Spanish language
are known as language vices. The subject of this paper is a broad view of the irregularities (that could be of different
grammatical nature) that could result from the improper use of the Modern Spanish language and encompasses the
definition, review of the most common types of language vices (pleonasm, solecism, amphibology, barbarism,
archaism, and neologism) supported by a series of examples excerpted from relevant sources among which
Ortografía de la lengua Española (RAE:2010). Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (RAE:2005), Gran diccionario
de sinónimos, voces afines e incorrecciones (Fernando Corripio, Bruguera, 1979), etc. The purpose of the paper is,
in absence of Spanish grammar(s) in Macedonian language and published comparative papers in particular in the
field of lexicology, to fill to some extant the vacuum and shed light on the language vices in the Modern Spanish
language, thus arousing the interest of the Macedonian linguists, especially those with knowledge of Spanish for
future more profound research and their systematization.