This story was originally published on The Conversation. It appears here under a Creative Commons license. “He made a party to celebrate his son’s birthday.”. These phrases might sound off to the ears of most English-speaking Americans. In Miami, however, they’ve become part of the local parlance. According to my recently published research, these expressions-along with a host of others-form part of a new dialect taking shape in South Florida. This language variety came about through sustained contact between Spanish and English speakers, particularly when speakers translated directly from Spanish.