Reply To: Frum English

@mogold –

“Mr. Chassidishe Gatesheader,

Please practice what you preach….. The following is part of a comment posted by you a few months ago, in the “confiscating shoe” issue

“After being reminded the first couple fo weeks of every school year, anyone who forgot tgeir sneakers”

MY eyes hurt reading this…..”

I didn’t write that. Can you give a link? I don’t remember any topic like that and don’t remember writing anything like that quote…

Anyway, I know this is mostly an American issue. It just amazes me that I, who never learned English anywhere, don’t make such horrible mistakes (though my grammar may sometimes be less than optimal). If that is how write in your mother tongue, then how do you write in the other languages you know?

Oh, right, Americans don’t know any other languages.

Seriously, why don’t frum schools teach any languages like Spanish, French, or German? Or maybe Russian or Chinese? I think learning at least two foreign languages for a couple of years should be required of each child. That’s the law in Europe. Why should the US be any different?

(I know I’ll probably get keelhauled for writing this.)