So I'm at the physical therapist's this morning (pulled tendon,
nothing serious), where the staff is Dominican, like the
neighborhood, though there are sizeable remnant populations of
previous waves of immigration. An aide shouts out to another, "mueve
tu tokhes." Wow. She told me that she and the other workers have
learned a fair amount of Yiddish from some of the clients, and it's
mixed into their everyday Spanish, along with some Arabic and Russian.
Thus do dialects evolve.
Mark
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