Yeah. And English is basically the lingua franca in my world. It's easy not to think too hard about it all.

[Steven sighs and runs his fingers through his hair, away from his face.]

I know when I use certain words in Spanish, they don't translate over, but is it because the pokeworld lingua franca is English? Or is it because I specifically want to use those words in Spanish? It could be either, really. It feels like if you concentrate really hard you can short-circuit the whole 'translation effect' and that's about the same amount of effort I just put into speaking English just then--but it is the language I default to unconsciously and there's a chance that the 'translation effect' only works on your unconscious default language.

Basically, Claude, it's a goddamn mess.