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I know the same feeling with English and German. It really is a wonderful thing. I think this would be called Code-switching [0].

> In linguistics, code-switching or language alternation occurs when a speaker alternates between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching

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Wechseln even dans a fraza: http://www.europanto.be/cabillot1.html

Haha.

Minä gör the same a menudo.

Yo teen det samma often.

I hago the same ofta.

Jag do lo mismo usein.

(FI/SV/EN/ES) :)

Wow, closest I can get to that mix is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VqUiSdd3yM , an english band interpreting a finnish tango.

Swedish will have to be separate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hdUKZLQIuQ

(Are you a finland-swede or sweden finn? If either of those, I'm a fan of both Army of Lovers and Nightwish.)

Haha yes that Zappa gig is a classic!

"Swedish-speaking finn" or "Finland-swede" yes.

Belta loda! You sound like your speaking the Belter slang from the scifi series The Expanse. Set a few hundred yrs into the future, slang used by the working class out mining the asteroid belts.

Taki taki. TIL. Tolowda wanya pochuye fo walowda sowngit ke? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ULICEPpoLQ

She she taki taki beltawala. Mi finyish vedi da lang belta da diye de.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCyGIJl1XUA

Y’all, stop. You’re confusing the hell out of GPT-4.

I hope they won't be training it on HN corpus, because I don't want an algorithm to spit out my own rants back at me...

Mi na du wanya wa robot fo du wating mi enjoy

It really is wonderful! Good to know there's an established term for that, thanks!

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