I'm Polish, raised in English, learning Spanish. I know more Spanish than Polish. Lady got me speaking Polish, next customer spoke Spanish. My eyes were crossed for about an hour as I got my mind back to English.
Because of the way I've learned French, Spanish, and Italian(Duolingo/college, highschool/Duolingo, Duolingo) I can not speak any of them fluently. Instead I create some strange mashup of all three. Now the Mexicans I have worked with in kitchens found it hilarious. The French in Paris wanted my neck. I've never spoken Italian to an Italian
I’m not even bilingual but even I do sometimes switch languages in the middle of sentences because there’s this always this one thing that you can only express perfectly in this other language.
The woman: "We've talked about the meeting, why weren't you there?"
The man: "Shut the fuck up! You didn't notify me about the meeting earlier for so many times. I only got the news when I'm about to arrive my home. What? Are you into guerrilla?"
I don't switch languages, but I do think in English while speaking German. I often directly translate my thoughts into broken English since I'm following German grammar. I have no idea why I do it.
I am Dutch and when I had an argument with my then-wife who was American I sometimes switched to Dutch too. And she knew at that moment exactly how pissed off I was that I was so mad that I couldn't even talk in English anymore lol.
That's just a thing that happens when you get wound up and start talking fast. The internal translator crosses the streams past the first 1000 rpms or so
I'm American born, but my first language is Greek. Although my Greek is rusty, there are just some expressions that just click in my head in Greek and I will switch to it when I get frustrated sometimes.
Can confirm: one of my soccer players totally forgot English for a few moments after a particularly nasty collision. I had to have a translator on the field for a few 😂
my great uncle (native italian speaker retired to the states) would just switch from english to italian when he couldn't remember a word. he just assumed that everyone would/could understand italian.
I can confirm... I'm French Canadian and sometimes I struggle remembering the French word for something while I know the english one... Brain, why are you doing this to me? I've been trying to learn Ukrainian for a bit, curious to see how much more I'll forget.
Hah, I feel you. I'm a Finnish person who's second language is Swedish. I speak fluent english and am now trying to learn French because my partner lives in Montreal and I'm gonna move there.
She is also learning Finnish and is bilingual. This causes us to daily speak three different languages mixed together :D
In Ireland here and I studied French in secondary school. Irish is also compulsory and while there is some influence due to the Norman invasion, Irish and French have as much to do with each other as Irish and English (as in, not a lot, very different origins and rules). When going through the oral exams in my last year I was tripping over myself using French verbs in the Irish test, then vice versa. It must happen a lot because I remember the examiners smiling at me.
The woman: "We've talked about the meeting, why weren't you there?"
The man: "Shut the fuck up! You didn't notify me about the meeting earlier for so many times. I only got the news when I'm about to arrive my home. What? Are you into guerrilla?"
The Chinese expression "Da you ji (打游擊)" could be literally translated as "fighting a guerrilla warfare". However, it has many meanings in Chinese. For the context in question, it means someone is too chaotic or too unpredictable in a negative way.
chingadamadrex
Anyone else heard Chris rock?
VaultGirl69
My mom is Korean. She's always mad but I know she's pissed when she starts swearing in English.
kittyanya
I'm Polish, raised in English, learning Spanish. I know more Spanish than Polish. Lady got me speaking Polish, next customer spoke Spanish. My eyes were crossed for about an hour as I got my mind back to English.
LincLoud
"Code switching" is common among those will multiple languages
youreathing
The only swearing I know in Chinese (Mandarin I think) is Cào nǐ mā! Which means "fuck your Mother!"
DontKnowTheSource
Because of the way I've learned French, Spanish, and Italian(Duolingo/college, highschool/Duolingo, Duolingo) I can not speak any of them fluently. Instead I create some strange mashup of all three. Now the Mexicans I have worked with in kitchens found it hilarious. The French in Paris wanted my neck. I've never spoken Italian to an Italian
Bombe
I’m not even bilingual but even I do sometimes switch languages in the middle of sentences because there’s this always this one thing that you can only express perfectly in this other language.
pomax
Yelling in an office? That's the woodchipper for both of you.
rmmmm
So.. what are they saying?
cation234
Native Chinese speaker here.
The woman: "We've talked about the meeting, why weren't you there?"
The man: "Shut the fuck up! You didn't notify me about the meeting earlier for so many times. I only got the news when I'm about to arrive my home. What? Are you into guerrilla?"
Trimule
drakionx
I don't switch languages, but I do think in English while speaking German. I often directly translate my thoughts into broken English since I'm following German grammar. I have no idea why I do it.
zortroz
YeastInfectedWhiskerBiscuit
I think this is some kind of act.
eetsumkaus
YOU'RE some kind of act!
Micah1966
I am Dutch and when I had an argument with my then-wife who was American I sometimes switched to Dutch too. And she knew at that moment exactly how pissed off I was that I was so mad that I couldn't even talk in English anymore lol.
Maviyakuku
Code-switching
69thStPepper
That's just a thing that happens when you get wound up and start talking fast. The internal translator crosses the streams past the first 1000 rpms or so
GabbyJayYay
69thStPepper
...or maybe they're bad at swearing, I don't know
DethKap
I'm American born, but my first language is Greek. Although my Greek is rusty, there are just some expressions that just click in my head in Greek and I will switch to it when I get frustrated sometimes.
unknownkooli
Malaka
DethKap
That's definetly one of them.
APassingPlasticBag
There is just something about shut the fuck up in English that hits right
wadenelson1
Get out.
SubsyServy
Falco was doing this before it was cool.
Allisade
I thought this was a starfox reference. That video was not what I was expecting at all... fun though!
NenehCheery
I miss my funky friends https://youtu.be/8-bgiiTxhzM
CgnCalling
Jack and Joe and Jill….
Smellyturdhead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8slcTiSGrc
drbwaa
This is just called being bilingual. Accidentally switching languages is very common.
MadamPuddifoot
Can confirm: one of my soccer players totally forgot English for a few moments after a particularly nasty collision. I had to have a translator on the field for a few 😂
Noughmad
Not necessarily. Many non-bilingual people swear in English because we watch so many movies and listen to so many songs in English.
ironymus
just wait till you are tri-lingual. You are messing up sentences in three languages and don't know the right translation anymore!
Infinias
And forgetting half the words in either language and trying to remember the correct words to form one coherent sentence in one of them
Mostlydeadpool
my great uncle (native italian speaker retired to the states) would just switch from english to italian when he couldn't remember a word. he just assumed that everyone would/could understand italian.
ArcaneDryad
Ya, that’s called byelingual
MapleSyrupMafia
I can confirm... I'm French Canadian and sometimes I struggle remembering the French word for something while I know the english one... Brain, why are you doing this to me? I've been trying to learn Ukrainian for a bit, curious to see how much more I'll forget.
tangelo
Hah, I feel you. I'm a Finnish person who's second language is Swedish. I speak fluent english and am now trying to learn French because my partner lives in Montreal and I'm gonna move there.
She is also learning Finnish and is bilingual. This causes us to daily speak three different languages mixed together :D
Quessir
In Ireland here and I studied French in secondary school. Irish is also compulsory and while there is some influence due to the Norman invasion, Irish and French have as much to do with each other as Irish and English (as in, not a lot, very different origins and rules). When going through the oral exams in my last year I was tripping over myself using French verbs in the Irish test, then vice versa. It must happen a lot because I remember the examiners smiling at me.
Robtheshaman
All I understood was "shut the fuck up"
jacblake
Loosely translated as, “Pardon my French.”
boblives
rijstewafels
Bitch is also a word you may have heard before
TsubakiTragic
"fuck" is universal.
IdoWalk
Almost, at least in under 40 in western Europe. But my mom still have no idea of what it means
unknownkooli
Yes, a Chinese man suddenly swearing in English
Robtheshaman
I didn't know the man was chinese
cation234
Native Chinese speaker here.
The woman: "We've talked about the meeting, why weren't you there?"
The man: "Shut the fuck up! You didn't notify me about the meeting earlier for so many times. I only got the news when I'm about to arrive my home. What? Are you into guerrilla?"
iDontBelieveInIsms
Who can honestly say they are not into gorilla.
DerpMeister
Guerrilla or gorilla? I mean, neither does really makes sense, but I have to ask.
cation234
The Chinese expression "Da you ji (打游擊)" could be literally translated as "fighting a guerrilla warfare". However, it has many meanings in Chinese. For the context in question, it means someone is too chaotic or too unpredictable in a negative way.
werrywerry
The others seemed to lose it when he said it hahahaha
DerpMeister
Thank you.
cation234
You are welcome. I had difficulty in translating the last part.
VodkaReindeer
What a lovely expression!