The Montanan's problem with outsiders moving in..

[Walter Greenspan]

To all the shlemiels, nebbishes, nudniks, klutzes, putzes, shlubs, schmoes, *******s, nogoodniks, and momzers that are lurking out there in the crowd, I just wanted to say that I, for one, get sentimental when I think about English and its place in our society.

To tell the truth, it makes me so farklempt, I'm fit to plotz. This whole schmeer gets me broyges. When I hear these mavens and luftmenschen kvetching about our national language. What chutzpah! These shmegeges can tout their schlock about the cultural and linguistic diversity of our country and of English itself, but I, for one, am not buying their shtick. It's all so much dreck, as far as I'm concerned.

I exhort you all to be menschen about this and stand up to their fardrayte arguments and meshugganah farshtunkene assertions. It wouldn't be kosher to do anything else. Remember, when all is said and done, we have English and they've got bubkes!

The whole myseh is a pain in the tuchas!

[Reziac]

Walter, you made me spit on my monitor That was priceless!

But see, that's one of the great things about English, and why ultimately it was a good choice for America. It can assimilate tons of words from around the world, and still be intelligible as English. I'll bet everyone here understood you perfectly, even if they don't know exactly what the Yiddish words mean. And a year from now some of those Yiddish words may have found their way into the common English speech in Montana, thanks to your heroically constructed and exceedingly funny post.

That's what a "melting pot" does -- it brings stuff IN, makes it OURS, and makes us all one people, as Americans. But the "diversity" enforced by enabling people who don't want to learn English does the opposite -- it keeps them OUT, and it keeps the rest of us OUT of their society as well.

That's actually to the point of this thread's topic, too -- bringing goodness IN from elsewhere, which we may find useful or good in our lives too, is not the problem. It's when a divide is created by people who want to be here but don't want to become Montanans, who don't want to learn our common cultural "language" -- that's when we have resentment, as they intrude into our lives while purposefully avoiding the learning and sharing of what makes us Montanans.

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by Reziac

But see, that's one of the great things about English, and why ultimately it was a good choice for America. It can assimilate tons of words from around the world, and still be intelligible as English.

I've read reports by those who count such things been that English has more words in its vocabulary than any other language.

I was also told that supposedly by one vote, we kept English as the official language rather than switching to German when German-speaking folks outnumbered English-speaking folks.

However, we favored German-style food and beverages over the English stuff (Yorkshire pudding and warm beer, yuccch!!!).

[Timberwolf232]

Originally Posted by Walter Greenspan

To all the shlemiels, nebbishes, nudniks, klutzes, putzes, shlubs, schmoes, *******s, nogoodniks, and momzers that are lurking out there in the crowd, I just wanted to say that I, for one, get sentimental when I think about English and its place in our society.

To tell the truth, it makes me so farklempt, I'm fit to plotz. This whole schmeer gets me broyges. When I hear these mavens and luftmenschen kvetching about our national language. What chutzpah! These shmegeges can tout their schlock about the cultural and linguistic diversity of our country and of English itself, but I, for one, am not buying their shtick. It's all so much dreck, as far as I'm concerned.

I exhort you all to be menschen about this and stand up to their fardrayte arguments and meshugganah farshtunkene assertions. It wouldn't be kosher to do anything else. Remember, when all is said and done, we have English and they've got bubkes!

The whole myseh is a pain in the tuchas!

Hahahahahaha! ewah ouldcah lsoah peaksah igpah atinlah ithwah iddishyah!

I can't say I've ran into to many people that don't speak Engilsh to others around where I live, although there are a few that go back to Dutch or German when they want to talk amongst themselves.. Mostly the older generation folks. I haven't seen many youngsters that that can speak their ancestral languages these days. (Myself being one of them.. I have no ear for languages)

[Walter Greenspan]

To fess up, what I posted was from the pen of Jackie Mason.

By the way, the "*******s" in the first sentence is "s-h-m-u-c-k-s".

For those who may not know, a s-h-m-u-c-k is that part of the male anatomy that always gets a guy in trouble. The word putz is a variation on the same theme.

I find it very surprising that there is a newly released movie, named, "Dinner for S-h-m-u-c-k-s".

[jrbinkentucky]

my family and I are looking into moving to montana to get away from the city life and its influences....to hopefully find a better place to raise our children and for me to work as a nurse...any suggestions on small towns with good schools/ nursing demands...we are trying to find a place to call our new home for good...so trying to get some info....thanks

[MTSilvertip]

Welcome to the Montana Board jrbinkentucky,

There are a lot of threads on this board that discuss a lot of different towns in Montana.
If you have never visited the state, my first suggestion would be to do so, travel some to see the differences between areas as Montana is HUGE, and also visit both during the winter and summer to make an informed decision as our weather can be rough.

You don't say what kind of community, size, location, local attractions or availability of recreation you are looking for, so it is kind of difficult to give you any specific reccomendations.

Most of the smaller towns in Montana have decent schools, (some are outstanding, some not so much), most communities are pretty safe, and many have small hospitals, clinics or nursing homes that have varying availablility of jobs.

Home prices, rents, availability and choice vary widely across the state as well.

Weather extremes from one part of the state to the other may also be a consideration.

Give us something to work with and I am sure somebody would be happy to give you some information to help you make a decision.

Good Luck

[Reziac]

To continue a theme from another thread -- is there demand for travelling nurses, for the very small farm towns that lack even a local clinic, and for isolated farmsteads? Occurs to me that this may be a niche in need of filling.