r/facepalm Sep 02 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Smarts. He has it.

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u/OverFjell Sep 02 '24

Most of the native Hindi speakers I knew mostly spoke Hinglish anyway. 😂 My old landlady was from Goa and she'd just switch from Hindi to English mid sentence when talking with other Indians

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u/GiuliaAquaTofanaToo Sep 02 '24

My best friend would do this when we were in middle school. She would switch to her native language, and I would lose the plot. What's funny is that it would take me a couple of seconds to figure it out. Like what? What are you saying?

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u/HanakusoDays Sep 02 '24

Tagalog speakers are notorious for this, on social media as much as face to face.