Fred588 wrote: ...Mixing languages is very common. My own paternal grandmother was born in Sicily and came to the USA at 15. She never really learned a lot of English but by the time she was 70 she did not really know, when she spoke, what was English and what was Italian.
That's not the same thing.
I was referring to people mixing English with their native language
in their own country. The equivalency with your grandmother would have been if she mixed English with Italian while she was still in Italy.
I'm not familiar with people mixing languages while they speak (except for the odd word or two) anywhere in Europe.
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