Editing Spanglish (section)

===''So''-insertion===
Within the US, the English word ''so'' is often inserted into Spanish discourse. This use of ''so'' is found in conversations that otherwise take place entirely in Spanish. Its users run the gamut from Spanish-dominant immigrants to native, balanced bilinguals to English-dominant [[semi-speaker]]s and second-language speakers of Spanish, and even people who reject the use of Anglicisms have been found using ''so'' in Spanish.{{sfn|Lipski|2008|pp=235–236}}
Whether ''so'' is a simple loanword, or part of some deeper form of language mixing, is disputed. Many consider ''so'' to simply be a loanword, although borrowing short function words is quite abnormal.{{sfn|Lipski|2008|p=237}}
In stressed positions, ''so'' is usually pronounced with English phonetics, and speakers typically identify it as an English word and not an established English loan such as {{lang|es|troca}}. This is unusual, since code-switched or lexically inserted words typically aren't as common and recurring as ''so'' is.{{sfn|Lipski|2008|p=238}}{{sfn|Lipski|2005}}{{Page needed|date=December 2023}}

''So'' is always used as a [[coordinating conjunction]] in Spanish. It can be used phrase-internally, or at the beginning or end of a sentence. In Spanish discourse, ''so'' is never used to mean "in order that" as it often is in English. As a sociolinguistic phenomenon, speakers who subconsciously insert ''so'' into their Spanish usually spend most of their time speaking English. This and other facts suggest that the insertion of ''so'' and similar items such as ''you know'' and ''I mean'' are the result of a kind of "metalinguistic bracketing". That is, discourse in Spanish is circumscribed by English and by a small group of English functional words. These terms can act as punctuation for Spanish dialogue within an English-dominant environment.{{sfn|Lipski|2005}}{{Page needed|date=December 2023}}