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It seams people take two many things for granite... That's an example of English grammar so bad a spelling checker program cannot help you. I peek Anglaise... dew jew? The 1960's brought thousands of Cubans to greater Miami. Many settled in Hialeah, a city on the West side of Miami that is mostly zoned industrial. Hialeah is the core of manufacturing in the Miami area. The 60's was a time when you couldn't get a job if you didn't speak 'some' English because factory owners and managers were American. Little by little, Business owners found they could hire Hispanics and pay them less simply because of the language barrier. The people who learned English usually became managers and those who didn't, remained at the bottom of the labor force. That was then... now, it's possible to survive in Miami and not speak any English. Many tradesman in Miami are gainfully employed and are not required to speak English in their daily lives. It's been three generations and English to many who were born here is a second language. I have found the bad thing to Spanish-English bilingualism is "They never fully master either language" and I see examples of this daily. A while back I saw a YouTube video remembering the American soldiers who lost their lives protecting our freedom. Lovely, but the words to the poem (with music in the background) said "We shouldn't take freedom for granite" I winced on that one! Hey, it's don't take things for GRANTED, not granite. I remember reading a profile of a woman who has a hobby of jumping out of plains. It wasn't a play of words... it was a mistake. (okay, I'm the grammar police... it's jumping out of planes) she is a Caucasian with a college degree raised in the Northeast. That surprised me she didn't know the difference. What happened to English in America...? It's a short blog... I don't want to waist your time.  Did you catch that? It's really waste and not waist. |
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