Bilingual people (was: my conlangs, for the record...)

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Nik Taylor wrote;
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>Mia Soderquist wrote:
>> Also, I don't know if other bilingual
>> people experience this, but I feel differently about expressing things
>> in different languages.
>
>What are you bilingual in?
>
>I've read that some bilingual people are incapable of talking about
>certain things in one language or the other.
What *does* happen to me (bilingual of Spanish and English) is that sometimes
I don't find a convenient word in Spanish, and an English word or phrase pops
out. I'm not that fluent in spoken English (I have no speaking practice, just
hearing and writing), but in these cases a nice English commonplace that
fits exactly into the intended meaning appears. This happens a lot when I
talk to my brother (not so much into English, but enough). He understands me
and doesn't care, but some people feel a bit awkward.

I do feel differently when speaking English. English is wonderful for compounds
and abbreviations. Speaking English for me is like ice-skating, while Spanish
is more like going on the back seat of a big car with a driver dressed in uniform.


--Pablo Flores
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