Walking down the street this evening in my neighborhood (yes, the same neighborhood I recently described as seemingly populated only by English speakers), I passed two boys of maybe 10 or 11 on bikes. As they went by, one called back to the other, "To the next Kreuzung, okay? To the next Strasse."
(Kreuzung=intersection, Strasse=street)
And I had to smile because those kids – probably the children of Americans, growing up here – already talk like my friends and I sometimes do, mixing the two languages with the knowledge that everyone will understand anyway.
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