I’m from New York and I pronounce and enunciate quite well and without an accent. When I went to school, perfect English was the norm, not now and then. Now, schools could care less if you speak correctly at all.
Hmmm. Lithuanian, huh. The timescale (to a cartoon first published 12-15 years ago?) suggests they arrived as refugees shortly after 1945. Hmm. “What did YOU do in the War, grand-dad, and whose side did you fight on?” Considering whose side they chose to fight on – and it was a Hell of a choice, Stalin or Hitler? – things might get interesting. Generally, lithuanians allowed to stay on in the UK after 1945 had been picked up as PoW’s in German uniform – can’t have been any different for the USA. And some of those Lithuanians were later found to have been concentration camp guards or members of SS death squads – we’d kind of overlooked this when we realised they ticked all the boxes for “refugees from the Soviet Union and therefore anti-communist”….
point taken – maybe great-grandfather has a chequered past?
But I do stand corected – Latvia and Estonia appeared to be more whole-heartedly pro-Nazi while Lithuania had a thriving resistance. (but some degree of collaboration and 40,000 men conscripted or volunteered into the German armed forces). Although the source might be biased slightly:-
perceptor3 over 12 years ago
Right with ya, Stick. I don’t understand Yankees half the time either!
walruscarver2000 over 12 years ago
Ah dunno wha chall air complainin bout. Down heyah in duh Sowth we kin tawk to em awl day lon.
Stray over 12 years ago
As another Canuck, I concur.
cbrsarah over 12 years ago
I’m from New York and I pronounce and enunciate quite well and without an accent. When I went to school, perfect English was the norm, not now and then. Now, schools could care less if you speak correctly at all.
AgProv over 12 years ago
Hmmm. Lithuanian, huh. The timescale (to a cartoon first published 12-15 years ago?) suggests they arrived as refugees shortly after 1945. Hmm. “What did YOU do in the War, grand-dad, and whose side did you fight on?” Considering whose side they chose to fight on – and it was a Hell of a choice, Stalin or Hitler? – things might get interesting. Generally, lithuanians allowed to stay on in the UK after 1945 had been picked up as PoW’s in German uniform – can’t have been any different for the USA. And some of those Lithuanians were later found to have been concentration camp guards or members of SS death squads – we’d kind of overlooked this when we realised they ticked all the boxes for “refugees from the Soviet Union and therefore anti-communist”….
AgProv over 12 years ago
point taken – maybe great-grandfather has a chequered past?
But I do stand corected – Latvia and Estonia appeared to be more whole-heartedly pro-Nazi while Lithuania had a thriving resistance. (but some degree of collaboration and 40,000 men conscripted or volunteered into the German armed forces). Although the source might be biased slightly:-
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=159130