There's also a characteristic intonation pattern of Chicano English as opposed to non-Hispanic American English. _________________ L'homme est comme Dieu l'a fait et un peu pire/ L'homme est le seul animal qui détruit pour le plaisir
I code-switch between English and Tagalog with my Mum, but between English and British Sign Language with my boyfriend. _________________ Zoriona tximelata bat bezalakoa da: bilatzen baduzu, hegaldatuko besterik ez da, baina gelditzen bazara, dator eta zure sorbaldan jartzen da.
In an ideal world, I would code-switch only with people who knew the same languages I know.
As it is I code switch in Italian a lot - but have to force myself not to in many situations. I think this stems from the fact that as I learned Italian through the stages, I would make it a practice to repeat any sentence I said in English in Italian too. Sooner it just got very easy for me to use whatever word fit. And while it works well with my husband who also knows English and Italian, it's harder with others.
That said I do it more often with Spanish, though just the common words that a majority would probably know.
Hey sorry for the absence. Code-switching is always a reality in my family in whatever language is spoken when we all get together. Usually you here people ranting raving in loud Panamanian -Spanish and Brazilian-Portuguese rather effortlessly back and forth. In English I personal do not switch but I get nagged about my accent since I live in the Southern states. I speak with a very apparent Northern accent with elements of Canadian-English because I have a lot of close friends and relatives who live in Canada. I once made the mistake at work of asking for a "carriage" to work in to one of my fellow southern English speaking co-workers. I forgot the work in the south that was mainly used is "buggy" for shopping cart. I never got so many laughs and everybody talked about it for more than a day. Now they always listen when speak to see if there is any peculiarities and tell me up front about them. How annoying
So what is your heritage, JGreco? A Yank, Panaman, Brazilian or a mix of all three? _________________ Hillary Clinton is an acquired taste which I have clearly yet to acquire.
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