https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/opinion/english-immigrants-language.html

The above article is titled “American English Needs Immigrants” and is written by Ilan Stavans.  To summarize Stavans says that they American diction is built on a continual supply of new words that push out the old ones.  He says that the way that these new words come in is with immigrants.  He then goes on to explain that if the American language is not able to get a new supply of words it will become obsolete.

I don’t necessarily agree with this.  I would argue that the American language does not fully rely on immigrants for new words and would be fine without immigrants.

However, does the risk that immigrants bring to the American economy outweigh the benefits that they bring?

What are some of these “new words” that have been recently integrated into the American language?