There's no standard definition of when something becomes a dialect or even its own language, so arguing about that is kind of moot. That said, I'm not terribly

There's no standard definition of when something becomes a dialect or even its own language, so arguing about that is kind of moot. That said, I'm not terribly impressed that there seem to be some Spanish calques in certain Englishes. That seems rather expected and similar things happen all over the world (with different language pairs). I mean, this can still be fun to investigate, but the article makes it sound as if it's something totally out of the ordinary happening. If we had evidence of actual grammatical shifts, that would be more interesting, but that doesn't appear to be the case here.