Person A: You know… the thing Person B: The “thing”? Person A: Yeah, the thing with the little-! *mutters under their breath* Como es que se llama esa mierda… THE FISHING ROD
As someone with multiple bilingual friends where English is not the first language, may I present to you a list of actual incidents I have witnessed:
Forgot a word in Spanish, while speaking Spanish to me, but remembered it in English. Became weirdly quiet as they seemed to lose their entire sense of identity.
Used a literal translation of a Russian idiomatic expression while speaking English. He actually does this quite regularly, because he somehow genuinely forgets which idioms belong to which language. It usually takes a minute of everyone staring at him in confused silence before he says “….Ah….. that must be a Russian one then….”
Had to count backwards for something. Could not count backwards in English. Counted backwards in French under her breath until she got to the number she needed, and then translated it into English.
Meant to inform her (French) parents that bread in America is baked with a lot of preservatives. Her brain was still halfway in English Mode so she used the word “préservatifes.” Ended up shocking her parents with the knowledge that apparently, bread in America is full of condoms.
Defined a slang term for me……. with another slang term. In the same language. Which I do not speak.
Was talking to both me and his mother in English when his mother had to revert to Russian to ask him a question about a word. He said “I don’t know” and turned to me and asked “Is there an English equivalent for Нумизматический?” and it took him a solid minute to realize there was no way I would be able to answer that. Meanwhile his mom quietly chuckled behind his back.
Said an expression in English but with Spanish grammar, which turned “How stressful!” into “What stressing!”
Bilingual characters are great but if you’re going to use a linguistic blunder, you have to really understand what they actually blunder over. And it’s usually 10x funnier than “Ooops it’s hard to switch back.”
I’ve definitely done 1, 2 and 7 before.
The switching is a thing at times though. I speak Polish natively and have learned English for most of my life and I noticed that often times when I talk with someone in English my entire THINKING basically switches to it. To the point that when someone says something to me in polish out of nowhere I need a moment to process it.
However, it’s with listening, the problem with SPEAKING I never encountered. When I want to say something to someone in Polish when I was just speaking English over Discord or whatever, I will say it in Polish, never happened that I say it in english or half and half.
Totty: C-Come on Emmy, this hasn’t fit me in years, why did you make me put this on!?
Emmy: Cause I found it in your closet, and cause all the lovely folks would LOVE to see you in it~ Now come on, smile!
Rosa: And think of the food afterward, Tots. Just suck it in and look good~
(Happy Easter from us at TFE! Hope you enjoy the eggs and more as much as the girls do dressing up. Well, two of them at least.
And here’s a small challenge for ya guys! If this pic reaches 150 notes, I’ll do an after shot of Rosa after her basket full of peanut butter eggs~ And theres pleeeeeenty of them. Have fun!)
Lets keep that art train going with another finish of Neko’s work. This time of my buddy Flip’s order of my OTHER buddy’s OC, Pewna. Looking fine and curvy with tits that would make even Emmy arch an eyebrow.
Hope you like the finish you guys! Want your own piece like this? Go order something from Neko! You can find his Commissions Here! Or, support him on Patreon and get those benefits!
Woooo! A finish of that nice pic of Pewna! Thank you Slots, it looks great as always!
Something for a friend of mine, a new CHangling OC of his, name Mimia. Shes quit ehte cutie, Id say. Hers a little bit from the man himself about her.
“She left her hive when she was young, not waning to live as just a simple breeder drone. She is a rather shy one, but if you give her some love, she will open up to you.“
So, I got a new OC! A changeling to boot. As Slots already mentioned, her name is Mimia, and she is a changeling breeder. Not wanting her ‘prime’ purpose in life to be just making new changelings, she left the hive. She doesn’t stick long to a single job, being afraid of people finding out she is actually a changeling, but she will mostly try to pick jobs where there is a lot of love in the air… or lust.
Also, thank you Slots for drawing her! She looks great.
