Bilingualism

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

Here in Santa Fe, one will often hear people switching back and forth from
Spanish to English in the middle of sentences.  "His pay is (spanish phrase)
but he never thinks to (spanish phrase) the dirty (spanish phrase).  Goddamned
hijo de puta!"

(Recently overheard.)

That's mainly among the older generation.  The younger seems to largely speak
English to each other and Spanish to older people; of course, local English is
full of Spanish loan-words and occasional turns of phrase.