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On 3/4/2015 12:40 PM, Tim Delaney wrote:
> A related thing is when you have multiple multi-lingual people talking
> together where at least two of their languages match (or are close
> enough for most uses e.g. Spanish and Portuguese). They'll slip in and
> out of multiple languages depending on which best expresses what they're
> trying to say, and no one will involved realise.

Except for my poor grandmother who hadn't understood a word my mother 
had said the previous ten minutes.  :)

Emile