My cunning plan has a flaw D:

[flyboy_fox]

Eight hours on the computer at work, squinting at the screen. Then, back at home and straight back online. Rinse, lather, repeat. ... headache D:

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Anyhow, on a random-ish note... on my break today I (unintentionally) overheard a girl talking on her phone to (I presume) her friend. What language she was speaking in, I'm ashamed to say I have no clue. If I had to guess, I'd say possibly something middle-eastern, but I really couldn't say. However, what caught my interest was how every now and then she'd say something in English, such as "you know what I mean?" or "I can't believe it!" or "yes, I know". Yet it blended in so seamlessly with what she was saying in the other language that at first I thought perhaps she was speaking very fast English and I just wasn't catching the majority of what she was saying. When I established for certain that she wasn't, for the most part, speaking English, I found myself fascinated. I'm not sure why. Just something about the way she was flawlessly mixing English and another language like that seemed really cool. It made me want to be perfectly fluent in two languages so that I can mesh them together like that. I'm not sure why that really stuck with me, but it just seemed awesome. I love language, it's fascinating. :)

Well, bedtime already :P Bah humbug. 'Night!

Comments

[p1nk5pider.livejournal.com]

There were girls like that back at my high school, who'd be speaking perfect Spanish and throw in a phrase in perfect English, then continue on again in Spanish, and so on.. The first time i heard it i was really thrown for a second too! And the Spanish/English mixing is so common i'm pretty sure they made Spanglish the technical term for it. It is quite facsinating, i must admit!

[flyboy-fox.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, Spanglish :) I have heard that used before, mostly in pop songs. Like the Spanglish version of "The Ketchup Song (Aserejé)".

[dia-aren-marie.livejournal.com]

Hee, that's common here ^^; Tagalog and English I mean - though it's more common to hear really bad english and tagalog mixed together XP

[flyboy-fox.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've seen a similar thing in written format in the comments to some of your posts :) I always found that really cool. I'd love to be fluent in two languages ;_;

[way-past-cool.livejournal.com]

That's so weird XD; when my boss calls her kids she does the exact same thing! And I had the same sensation you had of not knowing at first if she was just talking really fast or if it was another language! She speaks fluent Ukrainian, but when she speaks English she doesn't have an accent at all, so I never knew she spoke Ukrainian until I heard her on the phone, and she's switch so seamlessly between the two languages that it really threw me at first! XD;; funny that you experienced the same thing at your new job!

[flyboy-fox.livejournal.com]

Ha, that IS pretty weird and cool, shmoo n.n At least I know that you understand exactly what I mean when I described it n.n;