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To: SunkenCiv

I fear for the English language in the Twin Cities.....

;-)


3 posted on 01/31/2010 7:28:03 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Political Correctness Will Get Us All Killed)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

que?


4 posted on 01/31/2010 7:32:19 PM PST by gop4lyf (Obama wants to raise taxes and kill babies. Palin wants to raise babies and kill taxes.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
That would be new ~ English in MPLS.

In digging up one of the tribes that makes up a major component in my personal genome I found only 500 "native speakers" were left and most of them lived within blow up range of an abandoned and rusting Russian nuclear submarine fleet!

Someone bothered to render their language (Skolt Sa'ami) into writing in the 1950s, but there has been a decided disinterest in learning to read it or write it so you can't actually pick up a printed dictionary or grammar book ~ just copies of typed out stuff.

Still, darned if I didn't figure out how to translate two family hand me down words that survived the 375 years that line had been in America.

I'm happy. They should move away from the submarines though.

5 posted on 01/31/2010 7:42:03 PM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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