re: #165 Kruk

I’ve seen this a lot with immigrant families. You might have one generation who speak very broken English, a second who speak fluently while not quite acquiring the proficiency of ‘native’ speakers, and a third who’re indistinguisable from the natives, right down to regional accents.

Yep, that’s pretty much how the pattern has gone since the beginning of colonization. Where my Mom grew up in Ontario a good many of the older folk spoke Scottish Gaelic as the area was settled by folks straight out of the Highlands. She said it was quite normal to hear it on the street and a few of the really older folk spoke barely any English at all. Their kids all spoke english and some Gaelic with Gaelic slowly disappearing until now where there’s two people in the area who speak it fluently.