Swenglish?

[lady_vader]

I've noticed that I often accidently put some Swedish words in the English lately. And today I did the opposite, put in English words in the Swedish text. So embarrassing. :) It is usually the shorter often used words that get mixed up. But, it, if, the and so on

Comments

[kitty_vane]

Yes, yes, kyllä!
Whenever I'm tired or distracted I tend to flip between languages, although mostly for me it's a question of just automatically typing english words when I'm supposed to be typing in finnish. And yes, it's always the little "filler" words like and, or, it, to, the and such. I also tend to automatically break up compound words (which there is a lot of in finnish) as there's not really that many of them in english.

[lady_vader]

Yes these filler words!!

Compound words. I do not break them since it is a pet peeve of me to see such words broken up. I am better in Swedish than English (haha!) so I get easier annoyed over mistakes there.

I think I do the opposite, putting together words in English instead! Purists must have sore eyes after reading my English texts....

I still do annoy over some things in English, such as confusion of "they their they're there"!

[blythely_jean]

i don't get confused with English and Chinese because they really are quite different... but i do find that when i'm trying to recall a Japanese or Korean word, I mix up both these languages because their intonation has some similarities :o :)

[princesa_pony]

It doesn't happen when I am writting. But as in the past 4 or 5 years my life revolves around answering mails/ reading and watching tv in english... I found when I am talking in spanish it is getting difficult for me to find the right word. It pops in my head, first in english and i have to struggle to find the word in spanish O.O
I find it quite embarassing as in Argentina (speaking English is seen as something snobish/ high class/elitist).

[lady_vader]

That has happened to me too! haha!