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Originally posted by Q'alooaith:
When you get youngsters growing up bilingual you start to see the decay in barriers between lanuages, words cross back and forth untill they speak a tsa-sui that only they understand..
Though that's not bad either because no one feel's left out.
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I think you're more referring to streetslang. I don't think that has anything to do with being bilingual. When I look at a lot of youngsters around the neighbourhood here I see they use a lot of words from the english language, but when you try to get them to speak English, nothing good comes out, or it's with a big accent. It's more like a fashion to them.
The only one I know who mixes up a lot of words from the Dutch, German and English language without using slang, is my mother with her German background. Guess that happens when you teach German and English every day and live in Holland