Bad Code Switching In High School

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Bad Code Switching Code switching is to tweak the style of discourse to the gathering of people or gathering being tended to. I had problems code switching when I met these friends that were Mexican and a bad influence my freshmen year of high school. Their names are Gabbie and Morelia yet we called her Moe I had history class with Gabbie and I had science class with Moe and the three of us had foods class together. I was spending so much time with them in school.

Well I knew Gabbie and Moe my 8th grade year but never hung out with them in school until my freshmen year of high school that's when we had different classes together and one class with all of us together that was foods class and in foods class we always sat in a group together

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