If Israel abandoned Hebrew as an official language and replaced it with Spanish ...

[Boojatta]

then would there be a major increase in efforts to crack down on undocumented workers, and deport them along with their born-in-the-USA children?

[Fumesucker]

1. I love ya' Boo...

But you gotta quit Bogarting the good shit..

[Ian David]

2. And if they replaced their yarmulkes with pancakes...

[SwampG8r]

3. cue the hatefest

you are about to be bombarded with the most vitreolic hatred on DU
the expectation that the US
like every other country on earth
would expect foreign nationals to orderly follow laws on entry and exit
will have you labeled as hitlers mentor in short time
i agree with you in full

[Ian David]

12. I have no idea what he's talking about, so can neither agree or disagree.

You know who else was often incoherent?

HITLER!

[SwampG8r]

18. knew it

[RZM]

4. Well there is Ladino . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaeo-Spanish

[nomb]

6. My father spoke that as a child in the Alpen Dolemites....

[RZM]

9. Interesting, hadn't heard of it being spoken there

I wonder if it survived in some communities there because of the alpine isolation?

[nomb]

13. Each of those valleys is very distinct, Latin and Rhaetian mixed Ladino, German, Venetian....

The Wiki article makes itself makes no note of it, but this is a separate language.


Myself, I'd never heard of the other one using the term. Another fine moment for Wikipedia. Not.

[Boojatta]

14. Ladino is to Spanish as Yiddish is to German.

I have been told that when people who spoke Yiddish outside Germany arrived in Germany, they made an effort to refrain from using Yiddish and to instead use the German language.

[nomb]

15. Unless of course it's the more widely spoken Ladino from Italy related to Latin and Rhaetian

[WCGreen]

29. Oy Vey!

[COLGATE4]

5. If hawks flew around the moon, then would the U.S, protect turtles?

Stunning...

[nomb]

7. In a migratory counter-clockwise rotation or in the defensive lunar clockwise flocking?

[Iggo]

10. I don't know that!

AAAAAAaaaaaaagggggghhhhh.....!

[Chorophyll]

17. +1.

Following you into the Pit of Eternal Peril.

[Arugula Latte]

19. More pertinent is the question: What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen hawk?

[nomb]

20. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, it needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second?

[Chorophyll]

22. African or European? nt

[nomb]

26. What if it were N. American? We can't prove a negative, therefore we do not know if it might be.

[Chorophyll]

30. Maybe we should stick to the Knights Who Say Ni. nt

[nomb]

32. I have a more Second City sensibility at times that gets me off the beaten track...

Now if I only had a good supportive improv crew behind me...

[pink-o]

8. Are you speaking about the Diaspora and American Immigration in the 20th century?

I'm afraid I don't understand this post at all.

[ljm2002]

11. This is about Orly Taitz, right??? n/t

[snooper2]

16. If Canada outlawed Tim Hortons and forced everyone to drink Starbucks

Would people stop paying their hydro bill?

[RedCloud]

21. ¿Qué pasa amigos? ¿Viene la santa inquisición española de nuevo?

[Codeine]

23. If Hal Jordan abandoned his Green Lantern power ring and replaced it with a yellow one

would he be able to kick Batman's ass in a fight?

[white_wolf]

24. Of course not. He's the God-damn Batman!.

Though at one point they did try and make Batman a member of the Sinestro corps, but he said no and apparently Batman can get away with that.

[Abin Sur]

27. Of course he could!

But then, I'm understandably biased...

[Zax2me]

25. No.

[Boojatta]

31. Are you willing and able to describe the process of thought that led you to that conclusion?

[Name removed]

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