> For Medina, people who speak Spanglish have a “superpower”: translanguaging, or the ability to move fluidly between several languages. That's common in peopl

> For Medina, people who speak Spanglish have a “superpower”: translanguaging, or the ability to move fluidly between several languages. That's common in people who are fluent in two or more languages, even when they don't speak some sort of creole. My mother and I speak English and Russian, and will frequently swap out words mid-sentence, or do the other thing the article mentions as an example, starting in one language, and finishing in another. She and her Russian&English speaking friends do the same. But we're not speaking Rusglish, or Engrussian, or whatever. It's just a common facet of being multi-lingual.