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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote2015-09-24 06:42 pm

Odd linguistic bit

At physical therapy this afternoon, while showing me a stretch, the therapist said a couple of words of Spanish. I did what I thought she was asking for and asked "¿Como si?" which got me spread hands and "no hablo." I'm nothing like fluent in Spanish, but the code-switching just happened. So I went back to English, and then commented that the bit of Spanish had come out without particular thought, just as if I'd said "like this?" in English.
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[personal profile] birke 2015-09-25 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
That happens to me sometimes.
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[personal profile] switterbeet 2015-10-04 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
I love it when that happens!