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Anybody else here who doesn't speak English as a mother tongue and spend so much time on the Internet that they're beginning to forget their native language?

I racked my brains for a good 5 minutes yesterday trying to find the French word for "table", which is, amusingly enough, "table".

There are many instances where I just find it more expedient to use the English word for whatever I'm speaking about, even when I'm speaking French with other frogs. Sometimes I'll switch in the middle of a sentence because I just can't be bothered. English is simply easier, it comes more naturally.

Compare that to a few years ago, when I'd visit a few friends in America, go to a restaurant, forget which country I was in and attempt to order something in French. My whole life was in French, everywhere I'd go, anything I'd read or listen to, it would be en français. Now I just read and listen to everything in English, save French authors (I'm not that far gone).

It feels a bit bad forgetting my mother tongue (or maybe I'm just going senile). I used to have an amazing command of the language too. I spoke like an immortel, only with a Canadian accent. Nowadays I don't care. If I don't speak English, I'll speak joual. Things are coming out of my mouth that would never have made it past my brain filter before.

It's not like French is very worthwhile to know these days anyway.

I'm sad, I just left a community i've been in for a long time.

I'm sad, I just left a community i've been in for a long time.

where?

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Anybody else here who doesn't speak English as a mother tongue and spend so much time on the Internet that they're beginning to forget their native language?

I racked my brains for a good 5 minutes yesterday trying to find the French word for "table", which is, amusingly enough, "table".

There are many instances where I just find it more expedient to use the English word for whatever I'm speaking about, even when I'm speaking French with other frogs. Sometimes I'll switch in the middle of a sentence because I just can't be bothered. English is simply easier, it comes more naturally.

Compare that to a few years ago, when I'd visit a few friends in America, go to a restaurant, forget which country I was in and attempt to order something in French. My whole life was in French, everywhere I'd go, anything I'd read or listen to, it would be en français. Now I just read and listen to everything in English, save French authors (I'm not that far gone).

It feels a bit bad forgetting my mother tongue (or maybe I'm just going senile). I used to have an amazing command of the language too. I spoke like an immortel, only with a Canadian accent. Nowadays I don't care. If I don't speak English, I'll speak joual. Things are coming out of my mouth that would never have made it past my brain filter before.

It's not like French is very worthwhile to know these days anyway.

I am the same actually, and I live in France, I need to use french all the time. But all the thing I do are in English, I install game in english even when I could in French. Sometime when I speak with my mom I stop because I forgot a word in french, but I have it in english.

British/American cultural victory.

Anyways, I woke up this morning just reflecting...looking over the past few years and feeling abandoned. Time and time again I've put my trust and in some cases my love with people who have abandoned me for seemingly little or no reason. In some cases they just...disappeared without ever even saying why they were doing so. And it's not like they disappeared really...sometimes they're still around. They just don't talk to me anymore...

Is it me?

I'm still better with Afrikaans than English, but I definitely use a lot of English words when I can't immediately remember an Afrikaans word for something, or when something I learnt about in English has no obvious word in Afrikaans, since all my classes are in English.

And as an Afrikaner, very few things on the web or in terms of software and games are available in Afrikaans anyway.

And @ Wintermoot, certainly it's you, but it's them too. Some people just aren't made for each other.

Ouch.

I didn't mean anything insulting by it.

Except that I'm unloveable.

You might very well think that, I couldnt possibly comment.....

Just kidding, knowing you I can honestly that I know very few people as compassionate and dedicated as you, wintermoot.

To those certain people you're referring to, it might be. Not everyone we meet will stay a part of our lives. There's nothing wrong with us necessarily, or even them necessarily. These things simply happen.

People come and go.  The ones that really matter are the ones that stay no matter what.

People come and go.  The ones that really matter are the ones that stay no matter what.

But that's the thing...nobody seems to stay. The people I talk to now are almost all people I've only met in the last year or two, and that's always been how it is. The people you knew drift away and you get new friends to replace them...but shouldn't some people stick around? =/

You might very well think that, I couldnt possibly comment.....

Just kidding, knowing you I can honestly that I know very few people as compassionate and dedicated as you, wintermoot.

Thanks North...I really appreciate what you said. *hugs*

To those certain people you're referring to, it might be. Not everyone we meet will stay a part of our lives. There's nothing wrong with us necessarily, or even them necessarily. These things simply happen.

But what if there was somebody that had spent several years telling you they loved you, and then just...stopped talking to you, out of nowhere, for no apparent reason, to leave you to draw your own conclusions about what happened?

People come and go.  The ones that really matter are the ones that stay no matter what.

But that's the thing...nobody seems to stay. The people I talk to now are almost all people I've only met in the last year or two, and that's always been how it is. The people you knew drift away and you get new friends to replace them...but shouldn't some people stick around? =/

You might very well think that, I couldnt possibly comment.....

Just kidding, knowing you I can honestly that I know very few people as compassionate and dedicated as you, wintermoot.

Thanks North...I really appreciate what you said. *hugs*

To those certain people you're referring to, it might be. Not everyone we meet will stay a part of our lives. There's nothing wrong with us necessarily, or even them necessarily. These things simply happen.

But what if there was somebody that had spent several years telling you they loved you, and then just...stopped talking to you, out of nowhere, for no apparent reason, to leave you to draw your own conclusions about what happened?

for the last part, maybe they have their own internal demons to fight it out with that simply not talking to you anymore would be a way to protect you against that?

I have had a friend I had known for several years drop out of contact with me, and I never been able to find out why or what is going on with him.

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