💬 Do you prefer texting in English, Hindi, or Urdu?

I switch without thinking. With my father it's Urdu in English letters, short and polite. With my mother it's the same but with more emojis, because she sends them first. With my college friends it's all three in one sentence, and sometimes a word of Telugu too. If you counted, I'd say 4 languages a day on one phone, and I never planned it. The funny part is autocorrect. It only knows English, so it fights me on every message. Last month I sent my mother a short Urdu word for good night. My phone changed it to Tuesday. She replied, what Tuesday? Are you coming on Tuesday? I said no, it was a mistake. She said, then why did you send it, and that went on for a while. Jokes go to Hindi. I don't know why. A joke in English just sounds like a LinkedIn post. Anger goes to Urdu, and I get properly blunt. Work stuff stays in English, always. My cousin in Pune says I sound like 3 different people depending on the chat window. He's not wrong. My cricket group has never seen me polite once. Typing is where it gets messy. There's no standard spelling for any of it, so everyone invents their own. My father spells one word 3 different ways in the same chat. I never correct him. Voice notes are easier. No spelling, no autocorrect, just talking. But my phone storage is full of them. Which language do you reach for first when something goes wrong? I'm curious now.

4 languages a day on one phone, and autocorrect only knows English, that fight is real. My cousin types Telugu in English letters and her phone keeps changing amma to Emma. Her mother has stopped asking whether she is talking about a new friend. I switch based on who is reading, same as you. It looks messy, but everyone understands, and my father replies in the same language I used.

I do the same switching, mostly between Telugu and English depending on who's on the other end of the chat. My grandmother only gets Telugu texts from me, full sentences properly typed out, while my friends get whatever half English half Telugu mess comes out fastest. What's funny is I never notice I'm doing it until someone screenshots a conversation and asks why I switched languages three times in one message.