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oatmilkandvellichor · 10 months

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i love being in an excessively multilingual, multicultural relationship.

hahahaha, jajajaja, חחחחח, yalla, let’s go, dai, stop, cut it out, enough, nu?, so?, and?, ¿y?, what?, huh?, ¿que?, yes, yeah, sí, enka, yay, yesh, chabibi, achi, dude, bestie, compa, llave, kerido, querido, mi vida, cariño, tateleh, lovey, bitch, pendejo, shkots, fucking insane, descabellado, balagan, thank you, mvto, you good?, ‘stonko?

even the things that mean more or less the same thing Do Not mean the same thing in this house. if i’m laughing in hebrew instead of english there’s a reason. if i say querido instead of kerido there’s a reason. if zee calls me tateleh instead of papí there’s a reason. thanking you in creek instead of english isn’t a slip. etc etc etc.

i genuinely cannot explain this to you if you do not live in an excessively multicultural household. it is not enough to be bilingual/multilingual. i am spinning trying to explain this to people rn.

#i am Vibrating #my house is insane #if it’s english it’s AAVE and southern american english before anything else #some english words HAVE to be paired with sign or it DOES BOT MAKE SENSE #grammar is a mix of spanish aave asl and hebrew #any casual or slang terms are aave sae spanish or some judeo language #half the time we’re doing That Thing where you describe something in that ‘idk the word’ way that ppl who only speak english think is funny #there is a lot of agressive gesturing #i cannot stress this enough the only language either of us is fluent in is english #we are both native english speakers #but english is zee’s third language #and there so much more to it on both of our ends #it’s a madhouse when we talk #even when it’s just ‘standard’ english i swear we don’t make sense to anyone else

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