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  • From: "Del Williams" <delannw AT dlogue.net>
  • To: "Steve Sando" <steve AT mrlucky.com>, "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Spanish
  • Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 19:45:57 -0600

Oh Steve, I absolutely agree. It shows mutual respect. The tu form should
be reserved for informal relationships.

I guess I should be candid here and tell you I am half Hispanic. My dad is
where the Williams comes from. So I grew up with a Mexican-Spanish mother
and a Welsh father. It was interesting growing up with the extended
families and their cultures. Definitely not the same.

As the former wife of a propagator whose nursery employed mainly Mexican
employees, it was difficult not to step out of my role as the boss's wife
and be familiar with his employees. He used profanity in front of me once
with his employees present and I had to tell him how that is viewed. Beyond
disrespectful to your wife.

My daughter works at the nursery in the summers and those Mexican boys do
not mess around with the boss's daughter! Good!

But it was also my knowledge of Spanish and talking to his employees that
led me to the conclusion that a whole lot of them knew English far more than
they were letting on. My daughter speaks Spanish pretty well and she came
to the same conclusion.

Their children did know English. And that is something to keep in mind. If
they have teenage children, and they work for you, they probably know
English pretty well.

Hey, popular culture does have its way of luring the young to learn the
words to the music they are listening to on American radio.

Del (Escobar) Williams
Clifton, IL





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