lol Jay…as a matter of fact I have my best friend on the way over to the house now…he is Mexican American…He and I talk alot about race and language barriers and stuff…he is full blooded Mexican, though has lived in the US his whole life and has visited Mexico once. When I asked him about if he had been to Mexico, his immediate comedic racial response which threw me for a loops was, “Well have you ever been to Scotland” . Cracked me up but he had a good point.
His pic is on one of the fishing threads I posted on the community forum. Anyways, he told me that he didn’t learn to speak spanish until he was like 14ish. It wasn’t allowed in his house, due to the fact that his parents told him that he had to speak english first. They are old school, and raised him to think (which is true to a large degree) that he would not do as well in life if he did not have a firm grasp of english. He said he understood when spanish peoples spoke but did not speak it until around 14 or so. I found that so interesting. He also was raised in his community/city of Muleshoe that all white people had money…LOL…he married a white girl and found out she was more poor than he was. David is my best friend though and a great leader. He is the cubmaster in our scouting organization here.
Now far as me speaking another language. Well I speak enough spanish to get into a fight for talking about one’s mother.
I know enough german to eat, get to the bus station and also get into a fight.
I have a firm grasp of pig latin 
And I still struggle with zifs 
Very interesting thread. Some kewl points and no body is fighting…so kudos yall.
Kitty, you are a hoot… 
I wish, speaking globally, that we had more of our asian brethern on the forum also. I too like the cosmopolitan feel of the forum for the most part.
As long as you can speak redneck, then you will be able to understand my own southern waffling.
I did have to look up bullocks the other night though after reading a post…thank the Lord for dictionaries
have a great weekend yall
