[Sca-cooks] Re: Languages

[Daniel Myers]

Quoted from Michael Gunter - 5/21/02, 10:46 AM -0500:
>>My grandparents refused to teach us Yiddish so that they
>>COULD fight in front of us. <grin> When they realized I
>>understood what they were saying, they switched to Polish.
>
>I'm reminded of either a book or a movie I saw where the
>protagonists were archiologists and one left a message out in
>the open where even their enemies could see it. But it just
>so happened to be in ancient Greek. Kind of like the Navajo
>Wind Speakers in WWI.
>
>But, at the risk of sounding intolerant, I do agree that some
>of the incentive for learning English and becoming "American"
>is rapidly dwindling. Why, I saw an ATM the other day that was
>in Spanish and had a button to push if you wanted it in English!

I like the drive-up ATMs that are equipped with vocal prompts and braille
keypads.  I suspect it's a government requirement.


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