And Your right!

The orange creature is a perfect example of my post.

stupidity!

nt.

And that pathetic attempt to distract from her history is about the only time supposed foreign language proficiency was portrayed as a good thing.

About this spanish language Superbowl performance LOVE the Macarena at their family parties. WTAF?!

childhood education.
Bilingual families address the matter early on.
Parochial groups don't.
As an altar boy, I had to contend with Latin. My grandfather had spoken Spanish as a transplant. My father didn't speak English until he was nine.
As a reader of the classics, I was made aware of translations.
Culture and language go hand in hand.
Depriving our youth of exposure to understanding the linguistics of even modern day language is unfathomable. They create language and steal language every day.
Why parents would deprive their children of how words start and how they become is befuddling.

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always spoke Latin when we were in public. Again, growing up in the multi-lingual military, in a tri-lingual household, it was normal for me.

I simply do not understand these people and their anti-intellectualism. I DO understand the powers that be about this. After all, one cannot control a populace capable of critical thought, and in multiple languages!

I would be most interested to know what your final words in this post mean.

As for the last words, my comment when I encounter such people.

That one was worthy of Chief Showcase in "Yellow Back Radio Broke Down."

One of my favorites is the Republican penchant for telling people "I speak American."

I then ask, "which one?" This prompts "Whaddya mean?"

I answer, "well since English, Spanish, French and Portuguese are European languages, you can't be referring to them. American languages are Navajo, Lakota, Cherokee, Apache, Nahuatl, Seminole, Hopi, etc. etc. etc. If you are telling me you speak "American," I'm already impressed, so tell me which one?"

Oh, and if you think I have a big repetoire, I know a guy here who was born in Transylvania who speaks Hungarian, Romanian, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Hebrew, Aramäic, and Yiddish, as well as fluent English. I may have him matched in number, but he is miles ahead of me in sophistication! We have English, Dutch, Spanish, French and German in common, but he leaves me in the dust with the others.