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AustonT wrote:Well since you asked: Dutch.
Until about 7 Dutch was my primary language, although I learned English with hooked on phonics at about 5. Now my ability to speak and understand Germanic languages is halting at best, but my Squaddies in Iraq thought I was possessed by Satan when I talked in my sleep. So aparently some traces remain. I've also found that it helped me learn a lot of Hebrew...surprisingly similar in some ways.

Interesting, I would have been raised In Holland, my Dad was working there when I was aged about 1-5 and our move out there was almost finalised when my mother got cancer.

We coulda both been Cloggies!

ROFL.
It's a pretty interesting situation in Montana, which has lessened since the 70's but...when my parents were born in the 50s Montana was rigidly segregated. The Irish lived in Butte, the Dutch and Germans in Bozeman,Amsterdam, and Manhattan, the Germans and Irish (Catholics) in Great Falls, etc. Apparently my paternal grandfather and his siblings spoke only the Travellers Cant when the Orphanage took them in. My Maternal great grandparents refused to speak English at all, and thus while they lived there was only one language in the home.




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How did things work out with your mother?

Sonophos wrote:Denying the Holocaust happened is pretty much denying you have any ability for logical reasoning.

For starters...

I don't see how you could possibly deny the Holocost; first of all, we have evidence of the camps and such. Secondly, we learned quite a bit from the horrific "sciences" nazi's subjected those poor people to, and thirdly.... Hell, there is no thirdly, There really isn't a possible way to say that the Holocosts didn't happen....