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LOL. Years ago we had a friend who was tri-lingual (simultaneous translator) in French, English and Spanish. LoM is also fluent in all three. I came home from work one day and knew almost immediately who LoM was on the phone with... but I heard something odd and started listening to hear what it was. Then I figured it out and cracked up -- while LoM was glaring at me because she didn't know what so funny.

It was this: they were hopping from one language to another every few sentences. But LoM's accent lagged the hop by about a sentence: for example, when she went from French to English I heard a sentence in English with an unbelievably heavy French accent!

[Monkey Face]

LOL!

I had a German friend whose brother had come over for a visit while we were neighbors. She got so involved in translating that she would speak German to us and English to her brother.

I’d look at her and say, “Ilona: Nicht Deutsch!”