do i have covid, confusion and creole

[amw]

The past day or two have been consumed by me worrying if i have COVID. The odds are that i don't, because most recent numbers only show a few thousand active cases in the entire country, and anyway my lifestyle is relatively safe... Or, at least, i think it is

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[spiffikins]

When I was in high school, and actively taking classes in french and english - and hanging around other people who were in the same classes - I would find myself using French words when speaking English.

There were just some words that were *better* in French - and it seemed like my brain just assigned the label for those things to the French word - and dumped the English word.

A few years later, I met a little girl who was 3 - her parents were bilingual and spoke both French and English at home - the kid was just learning words - she had no concept that some of the words she knew were "English" and some were "French". So in her world there was one word for the colour "orange" and a totally different word for the fruit "orange" (I am realizing as I type, that this is much clearer when I *say* it - since "orange" and "orange" are spelled the same, but pronounced differently in English/French, LOL)

I often wonder how she got on, when she entered school - and if she ended up having any issues sticking to a single language when she was forced to :D