Funny, I am also seeing some suffering people because of a blood test I had
to take. A man with heart surgery this morning: "I did it when the valves
were the good ones, not like the ones they do in Japan or in Russia. Can you
imagine, being opened again (and he shows his chest with a long longitudinal
gesture) just to change a valve?" And I can read so many diseases on those
faces. Not to talk of the municipality office where I went later for my ID
card, an elderly lady in front of me; at the other counter an overweight
elderly man (probably diabetes) who had to get down a couple of
centimeters from the paper to put his signature, unable to see with thick
glasses. As we know our sterilized society hides death and disease, if you
have to be productive sufferance does not have to peep through.
On Jan 16, 2008 3:35 AM, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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