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I don’t know the name for the transition, but you are talking about what are called registers in linguistics. (I do the same thing when back with old friends)
by surbas 7y ago
I don’t know the name for the transition, but you are talking about what are called registers in linguistics. (I do the same thing when back with old friends)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_(sociolinguistics) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_(sociolinguistics)
- egypturnash 7y agoAlso see code-switching. Which is something I have been very amused to find myself doing after moving back home to New Orleans - there's several distinct flavors of English in that city, and watching them pop out of my mouth after twenty five years speaking Newscaster English is fun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching