https://redbird.dreamwidth.org/ Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished - Dreamwidth Studios Fri, 25 Sep 2015 01:49:12 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios redbird personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/222785/52751 https://redbird.dreamwidth.org/ 94 100 https://redbird.dreamwidth.org/1478479.html Fri, 25 Sep 2015 01:49:12 GMT https://redbird.dreamwidth.org/1478479.html 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.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=redbird&ditemid=1478479" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://redbird.dreamwidth.org/1478479.html brains are weird language code-switching public 2