Anybody old enough here to speak 'Pig Latin'? The Three Stooges occasionally did. Ick-snay!
This post was edited by B.H.Wilson at March 9, 2019 11:21 AM MST
We had visited Mexico when I was a kid and I thought it would be nice to speak Spanish. It's not a bad idea now since there are so many people in the US who speak Spanish now.
I have studied Latin, French, Russian, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Spanish. I quit Arabic when I learned that it is so difficult that even native speakers can't speak it correctly. I actually studied Chinese twice. The first course was thirteen weeks of how to draw the characters, no words. The second course was all vocabulary, nothing about how to compose a sentence. I did not put much effort into any of these because it is quite rare to meet someone who does not prefer to speak English.
I grew up in the middle of an Indian reservation near the Mexican border. At one point a certain politician suggested printing ballots in three languages: English, Spanish, and Indian. He was totally unaware that every Indian tribe has its own language, and they all prefer to discuss politics in English anyway.
It's just so terrible what the Europeans did to the people of the americas and the rest of the world....Englsnd still does it and has no morals about its past crimes....