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Mike Marlow[_2_]

wrote:

My mother's family spoke Finnish. They used it as code so the kids
couldn't listen in on their "adult-talk" (much more permanent than
s-p-
e-l-l-i-n-g). She was the last of the family and none of the
grandchildren spoke it, by design, so that was the end of it.

It was Ukrainian in our family. We (kids) understood it well, having grown
up around it, but none of us ever spoke it well - except for the "cool"
phrases...

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-Mike-