Why would... it can't just be a weird tense thing, can it? Why would anyone have another name just for speaking in another language? But it doesn't fit Gloria's voices theory, either... imaginary voices can't learn English while their host doesn't, probably, unless it's a really bizarre dissociative thing.

"She, uh... switches things. Properties of things. I don't know what the limits are, but she's switched the colors of chalk, turned food into other food... the mice are for, um, I think she switches tiredness and awakeness, so she doesn't have to sleep. I don't know how it's possible, no."