Editing Macaronic language (section)

{{Short description|Text using a mixture of languages}}
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[[File:Paul Fürst, Der Doctor Schnabel von Rom (Holländer version).png|thumb|Copper engraving of Doctor Schnabel [i.e. Dr. Beak] (a [[plague doctor]] in 17th-century Rome) with a satirical macaronic poem ("''Vos Creditis, als eine Fabel,'' / ''quod scribitur vom Doctor Schnabel''")]]
'''Macaronic language''' is any expression using a mixture of [[language]]s,<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Oxford Dictionary of English]]|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/macaronic|title=Macaronic|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151022203122/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/macaronic|archive-date=22 October 2015}}</ref> particularly [[bilingual pun]]s or situations in which the languages are otherwise used in the same context (rather than simply discrete segments of a text being in different languages). [[Hybrid word]]s are effectively "internally macaronic". In spoken language, [[code-switching]] is using more than one language or dialect within the same conversation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2012/04/12.html |title=Definition of Macaronic |publisher=dictionary.reference.com |access-date=12 June 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419181212/http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2012/04/12.html |archive-date=19 April 2012}}</ref>

'''Macaronic Latin''' in particular is a jumbled [[jargon]] made up of [[vernacular]] words given [[Latin]] endings or of Latin words mixed with the vernacular in a [[pastiche]] (compare [[dog Latin]]).

The word ''[[wikt:macaronic|macaronic]]'' comes from the [[Neo-Latin]] ''macaronicus'', which is from the [[Italian language|Italian]] ''maccarone'', or "dumpling", regarded as coarse peasant fare. It is generally derogatory and used when the mixing of languages has a humorous or [[satire|satirical]] intent or effect but is sometimes applied to more serious mixed-language literature.