by Reg Green
I wrote last week about the Italian friend who I thought was asking me if I was angry but who instead was saying ‘are you hungry?’
Since then I’ve remembered my surprise when another Italian friend told me how bold illegal immigrants have become in crossing the Mediterranean into Europe. Someone he’d met, he said, had come from Morocco — without any ID at all — on a sheep.
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Years back, a gentleman I talked to thusly described the difference between the native English-speakers and us Russians: “to the Russians, the words “sheet” and [I cannot spell here the next word he used — FCC may come and grab me — but please replace “ee” with “i”] sounds as the exact same word. To us Americans, they are two completely different words — COMPLETELY different, nothing in common at all.” Now I see what he meant…