From: Phil Payne 

> I think in English quite often, for example right now. Every now and then,
> when I'm programming or doing something else with computers (all in
> English), someone says something to me in Finnish and I reply in English
> because my brain is in that "mode".

I find I prefer to speak to Germans in German, because I know what words I
understand but not necessarily what words of English _they_ understand.

With other bilinguals the language for a sentence is set if there's a
particular word you want to use that isn't the same in the other language -
or if it's a technical term.  I just had a conversation with a German
bilingual about revenue recognition - the part that concerned US
legislation was in English, but he wanted to use the German term
"zugesicherte Eigenschaften" and the rest of the conversation was
in German.

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  Phil Payne
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