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It takes more effort to tell two language apart when you understand both of them (fedia.io)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's fun sometimes. We'll talk and then stop "hey wait a minute, which language did you say that in?"

[โ€“] seven_phone 4 points 5 days ago

I suppose that is what fluency means, that it becomes native to the brain and used instinctively without conscious filtration. A lot of modes of thought become mixed at the point of fluency, at a certain level scientific problems can be difficult to define whether they are chemistry or biology or mathematics.