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Such a multilingual environment--and the picture is made still more complex by other immigrant languages like Malay (no longer spoken), Indian languages (e.g., Hindi and Tamil), as well as indigenous languages of the Khoi and San families now extinct in South Africa--makes the lexicographer's task at once difficult and stimulating.
In some instances, ancient languages have been decoded, some from multilingual inscriptions.
I trust that Mr. Ford, who started it all by Spiking Lunars [XVIII, 4, 6] is not going to take umbrage at the turn of this multilingual coda.
The KLM pilot's otherwise perplexing use of the very nonstandard phrase at take-off, rather than the more standard phrase taking off, appears to have been a subtle form of what linguists call code-switching, a process in which bilingual or multilingual speakers inadvertently switch back and forth from one of their languages to another in the course of a conversation.
Bilingual and multilingual communities are often the product (in part at least) of colonial pasts, as in the Philippines, Malaysia, and India, but not always: they can also be the outcome of simple proximity, as when Mexican Spanish and American English come intimately together in a Texas supermarket:
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