• Wait, what words were used to say that?
  • seven_phone@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    That is a genuine new thought for me, I only speak one language but it never occurred to me that if you are fluent in two or more that they might start to merge in your head into a single language, forcing you to work to isolate one as you speak it. All languages are a mix of others but I can’t imagine having to differentiate the root of each word before it is used to ensure its applicability.

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      19 days ago

      It’s more complicated than that. For the new language, it’s easier to displace a closer related language, harder to displace your native one etc etc.