Somewhat Off-Topic: thinking in conlangs

Hejida tahoj'ny,

today, something really weird happened to me while I was on the phone with my
fiancee (and of course, I can't resist sharing it). Since he's from a
completely different part of the world than me, we talk in English among each
others, even though my native tongue is German. I was kinda tired and thus
struggled with words. At one point, I neither knew the correct English term,
nor the correct German one, but I did remember the rejistanian term (halen,
meaning something like subjectively important) and used that after a pause.

This already was weird, but then, it turned out that he understood what I
meant, maybe from context or because I used it earlier already. It was really
romantic! He's an angel, and a very nerdy one <3

Did it also happen to you already that you only remembered a term in your
conlang and not in a language, you are supposed to be fluent in?

Va'iln veka,
~Mechthild

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