>>>>>>>>What would happen in the US if Arnie would say: "Do we want more or less blacks" and replies "Let me take care of that" ? I doubt he would walk away without a lawsuit.
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>>>>>>>Ach vergeefse moeite. Laat ze maar aanmodderen.
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>>>>>>Peudo communicar en otras linguas tambien, Quando estas escribiendo en otra lingua, tratando obscurar sus pensamientos, no gana nada. Yo puedo hablar en 5 linguas, tu?
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>>>>>Dat vraag je aan een Belg? Een land waar sowieso drie talen worden gesproken? Jean zal er sowieso 4 beheersen,
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>>>>Is this some sort of language Monty Python sketch. Two people who have never met trying to out language each other. Impressive.
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>>I could have thrown in a few, but haven't got as far as composing real sentences in them. For the above, I had to check the "aanmodderen" on google's translator, which answered in cyrillic english :).
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>>>Nah , not even a contest with those American folks.
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>>Happened to me few times here and in rl, that someone would hear that I speak four languages and comment that that's three and a half more than average Joe.
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>In Texas and California we have many fluently bilingual Spanish and English speakers.
>It is funny to overhear conversations between two bilingual speakers - they drift seamlessly from language to language and back again.
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>Perhaps whatever language they were using to think of the subject, or when they need a certain word.
>I don't really know what prompts the language switch.
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>It appears that the speakers don't even notice they are switching languages.

As a bilingual speaker myself I can attest to that. And as someone who has been passionately learning Spanish for 30 years, I listen and pay attention to others speaking it. What fascinates me a lot is a how the children of immigrant parents know both languages without any effort. I have two daughters who are adults, both born in USA. My wife and I speak with them only in English. Yet they both understand Russian very well; the older one even speak it (although with an accent and confusing gender and some grammar but yet better than most university professors of Russian language). And even though I speak to them in English, if necessary, I can throw some Russian words, barely pronouncing or articulating them. And they understand without an effort. For example, if we dine in a restaurant and I see someone at another table eating some crap, I can just comment about it, under my nose in Russian, and both daughters immediately grin and nod their heads. :)