Sounds like a friendly place ... two languages i missed from that baptism, heard neither spoken there but i know speakers were present - haida, and vietnamese .... and our russian friends actually didn't show up until very late, they were selling a boat and had a hot prospect, but one of the czechs is fluent in russian, being well over fifty years of age, so at least one speaker of the tongue got sprayed with the holy water [! - what a thing that is, really takes you back]
There is a vibrancy that comes with this mixing, eh .... 'assimilation', maybe we could better use another term .... 'melting pot', there's another we could chuck - how about a more lightly heated, and more tastey, bouillabaisse
Not meaning to get involved in this thread, think i'm persona non grata here, apparently it is uncool to enquire of unclewest if perhaps he might better employ his time looking for peasants to napalm .... so i'll be extra careful not to do that today .... agreed with many of your thoughts in re zionist expansion on arab lands, by the way .... but not gonna get into that either .... on the language thing, on Zeev's politics thread on ihub a few weeks ago there was a proposal raised to make english an 'official language' in the US, and i think that is one of the stupidest things i've heard in years [which is really saying something, given current events] - all that is doing is spitting in the face of the hispano ... of course everybody is going to learn english, duh, in no way is the tongue endangered ... passing some law to that effect in a gesture of cheap spite is just insane, absolutely the wrong message to send ... imho .... cheers
[edit] - you mention fascism et al in a recent post - a very common book in used bookstores in el DF is 'Mi Lucha', the translation into spanish of AH's Mein Kampf .... lots of editions dating back to the 30s and 40s, when they were used by socialists, communists, etc to show what could happen if you failed to get really totalitarian in your anti-fascism measures ..... though that is not how they phrased it at the time, lol .... all of this ended up reinforcing the native isolationism, more than anything ['a pox on all their houses'] |
