Why do multi-lingual people seemingly, with no reason, switch between languages while talking to someone who is also multi-lingual? What benefit does it have over staying with the language they started the conversation with?
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a lot of experiences and situations happen get embeded in our separate realities because you’re in your native language brain, or your current reality. So you’ll talk in your native/home language when relating to a story about family, friends, english when talking about work, shopping because the memories, the experience happened in that space. when the two get together you have to translate.
I don’t think its the same as compartmentalizing. IE: a very nice family man who goes to work at the concentration camp.
A friend who was a chronic alcoholic explained how he could pass DUI drunk tests, after awhile being drunk becomes a 2nd reality and you just learn to maintain. Another friend who probably consumed more LSD than any living person should confirmed this.
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