Hal Kaplan <> wrote:
> Actually, I have always been impressed by the fact that there seems
> to be a lot more Europeans who speak English than Americans who speak
> Spanish or French or German or Portuguese or Flemish or Gaelic, etc.
> etc.
A friend of mine and I were discussing the rules of the family that had the
initial immigrants still alive. We both remember that some of our
grandparents spoke the language of the old country(s). His was Italian,
mine was German. Only our great-grandparents and our grandparents were
fluent in the old languages. The next generation was insulated from it on
purpose. We both tend to remember that it was a family rule that the new
generation would be "Americans" and divorced from the native tongue.
Stephen Russell
DBA / .Net Developer
Memphis TN 38115
901.246-0159
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided
missiles and misguided men." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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