[lbo-talk] Triple Your Lizard

Bill O'Connor billyoc at gmail.com
Mon Jul 20 11:14:07 PDT 2009


Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes:


> On Jul 20, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
>
>> When you go from LA to New York, are they going to be speaking a
>> different language?
>
> Do you have any idea how many languages are spoken in Queens?
> Seriously. Brooklyn to a lesser extent, too. Compare that even to
> otherwise cosmopolitan places like Seattle and Portland.

Good point, there are Chinese immigrant communities in NYC that can't even speak to each other. I believe over 300 languages are spoken on the streets of New York City daily, to hear the TWU tour guides tell it.

-- In Solidarity, Billy O'Connor



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