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I am multilingual and that is frequently an issue I have ... with my native language. Which often forces me to make a decision on whether it's fine to just use the English word (plus using an English word in the middle of a non-English sentence trips me up), which the recipient might or might not understand.
The same happens to me often. Luckily for me, both Gen Z and people in corporate environments like to insert random English words in my native language, so depending on the context it might come up as pretentious corporate or "Howdy fellow kids", but at least not like I'm a complete idiot.
TBH I'd rather look like an idiot than a pretentious corporate.
insert meme
You use the English word because you're a pretentious idiot
I use the English word because I forgot
We are not the same