http://cultureby.com/2005/08/metaphors_r_us_.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://cultureby.com/2005/08/metaphors_r_us_.html/comment-page-1#comment-5858 Alan Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:35:22 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=884#comment-5858 Lovely story, reminding me of one I was told by a guy cutting my hair here in Toronto recently. He had emigrated in the '60s from Siciliy speaking only Sicilian Italian; he settled initially among other Sicilians, some of them family. He then went hunting for a job and got one in a barbershop in the College-Spadina area. Everybody was pleased, as they knew this would mean that in addition to developing a skill, he would be learning English. Some months later, in a situation not unlike that in your story, he discovered he had been working among Ukrainian immigrants and had developed a good grounding in Ukrainian, and had learned no English. Lovely story, reminding me of one I was told by a guy cutting my hair here in Toronto recently. He had emigrated in the ’60s from Siciliy speaking only Sicilian Italian; he settled initially among other Sicilians, some of them family. He then went hunting for a job and got one in a barbershop in the College-Spadina area. Everybody was pleased, as they knew this would mean that in addition to developing a skill, he would be learning English.
Some months later, in a situation not unlike that in your story, he discovered he had been working among Ukrainian immigrants and had developed a good grounding in Ukrainian, and had learned no English.

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