Which now I thinking about it… I guess this is why Gen Z / Gen Alpha are using “brain rot” slang, they want to create a world where they feel in control, where they are the masters of.
Just like I do. I sometimes just yell English phrases as my like to create a sense of seriousness… like know how parents call your full name? My mom use Taishanese (their home village language) to call my full name instead of Cantonese (the language of the city I was born in) when she’s mad at me, and I feel like that make her feel so “in control”. So for me, I reverse it in the other direction, I just use English like “leave me alone” lol, I don’t care if my mom understood it. I feel so empowered by it lol.
That’s interesting, because I do that too. Native language for family use, “common tongue” for outsiders and strangers, English when angry or want to be serious. They do feel like three stages of distance. Also, each language has slightly different preferences with slightly different ways of thinking, which leads to you often think different things in different languages. But more often than not, they just end up in a big muddle.