# Do you (unwittingly) code-switch when speaking?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 28, 2022, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-unwittingly-code-switch-when-speaking/968703 "2022-07-28T08:53:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-unwittingly-code-switch-when-speaking/968703/15 "2022-07-28T19:12:01Z")

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> [@solost](#):
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> I was often ok talking with people one-on-one, and I’d cope by kind of taking on the persona of the person I was talking to

> [@Chefguy](#):
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> I change my manner of speaking depending on the audience

What the two of you are doing isn’t code-switching, since you’re using different language varieties with different sets of conversation partners, but not different language varieties simultaneously with the same set of conversation partners. There’s another thread for that practice that you might like: [Do you use a different accent or dialect, depending on who you speak to?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-a-different-accent-or-dialect-depending-on-who-you-speak-to/964016)

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