"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> On 9/25/2014 11:15 AM, graham wrote:
>> On 25/09/2014 7:22 AM, Boron Elgar wrote:
>>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 07:43:57 -0500, Janet Wilder >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Many of the Haredi in Israel (Ultra-Orthodox) speak Yiddish.
>>>>
>>>> Yiddish is not dead yet. More people speak it as an everyday language
>>>> than those who speak Latin. :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> There are Chasids within the office complex where I work. I hear
>>> Yiddish every day.
>>>
>>> Many year ago when I still lived in the city, my aunt and cousin
>>> were visiting and I took them down to Orchard Street (nothing like the
>>> gentrified area it is these days) and we wandered into a store to
>>> shop. Bargaining was still alive and well down there.
>>>
>>> All three of us are fair-skinned and blue eyed, with me a blonde and
>>> my cousin with light hair. None of the three of us would be considered
>>> "Jewish looking".
>>>
>>> My aunt took an interest in a very nice sweater and as she looked, we
>>> heard the two men behind the counter (kippas & tsitsis) discussing the
>>> lowest price they'd let the sweater go for. We three women exchanged
>>> knowing glances, haggled a bit for fun, made the purchase at that
>>> lowest price, and as we were leaving, all three of us switched to
>>> Yiddish among ourselves as we walked out. Then we looked back at the
>>> two surprised men behind the counter.
>>>
>>> Boron
>>>
>> At an "upgrading" high school in this city, some Chinese students were
>> talking among themselves about what they would like to do to the
>> stunning, typically Scandinavian blonde teacher. She turned around and
>> let fly in fluent Cantonese. She never had any discipline problems after
>> that.
>> Graham
>
> I would love to learn a Chinese language. I regularly have my nails done
> and the girls are all Chinese, or Korean in the case of a couple of them.
> Most of them chitty chat on and on to each other in Chinese and I'd so
> love to know what they are saying.

Here they are mostly Korean and it is very annoying, especially when they
are laughing at something. I always get the feeling that they are laughing
at a customer.