irregular verbs too-- play havoc with bilingualism

"you want i should cry?" (instead of Did you want me to cry?)--Did go the emphatic case also creeps in as past tense --for went. We did go to the store last night.

NY has spanglish, and yidish, and italian slang words that i can think of-- that have become part of NY venacular. the most recent influx has been Koreans/chinese/japanese. but so far, i haven't seen any of their vocabulary crossing over, not even something as simple as Hai! the japanese equivient of OK.


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