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Originally Posted by LancYorkYankee
I thought you be shedding tears and sharing it with all your patriotic San Fransico neighbors!  You could even translate it into spanish for the rest of your neighbors.  
Brian |
My Hispanic/Latino neighbours don't require any education in speaking English ,in fact it may surprise you to know some of them were living here prior to California statehood in 1849, ever heard of Don Diego del la Vega.....Zorro (ok not a real person but you get the idea)
even the gardener and the pool guy manage to get by , it must be ESL classes they are taking at evening class)
The Afghanis apart from the old crone of a grandmother speak English she speaks Pushtu, Dari, Farsi and Arabic, lucky for me, I still get a chance to practice the smattering Farsi and Arabic I picked up in Iran and Saudi.
One of the Chinese familys great,great grandfathers came over and worked on the construction of the trans continental railroad, so there is no need of any translation for them.
The Brazilian familiys kids dont even speak Portugese , and as for the Japanese......they have been speaking English since their Grandparents were put into prison camps in the Utah desert in 1941
In fact the only neighbours I have any problem communicating with are the recent transplants from Texas (white trash christian fundamenalists).
In fact it wouldn't surprise me to learn that they have more of a problem understanding my Lancashire accent and idioms at times
..is not the national motto of the USA .. the Latin phrase, E Pluribus Unum — out of many, one