I can tell you, that as a native German speaker, deeply submerged in English media and programming languages, sometimes I don’t remember the German word and just insert English words into my sentences and everybody above the age of 45 gets extremely angry about that, while everyone below that age will just blink, nod and then go along.
It’s a really weird level of Zweisprachigkeit when you suddenly start to mix words.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Do you also say random words in foreign languages and then explain that “ライブラリー” means “biblioteca”?
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
No but sometimes but my vocabulary randomly and sometimes for no reason at all contains some words that British ppl use and sometimes Australian :3
(Although its extremely tempting to learn German just so I can randomly start speaking in German)
Enkrod@feddit.org 1 month ago
I can tell you, that as a native German speaker, deeply submerged in English media and programming languages, sometimes I don’t remember the German word and just insert English words into my sentences and everybody above the age of 45 gets extremely angry about that, while everyone below that age will just blink, nod and then go along.
It’s a really weird level of Zweisprachigkeit when you suddenly start to mix words.
ZeroEightOneFive@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Same (not a programmer, though). Some words in other languages are more precise or fun. Same goes for proverbs and idioms.
renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Just randomly agree with someone with a simple Genau while nodding your head.