groing up on a bi generational home you learn many things it's almost like learning two different cultures even though you speak the same language one is for the here and now and the other one was how you were raised and your perspective on the inside.
@Jacqueline Hyde, aside from the obvious common ones that we use on the forum, I can speak some native African languages and Arabic. I've somewhat recently learned Greek.))
@Jacqueline Hyde, I'm much better with French, then Italian and Spanish, in that order. I've been trying to get Chase to teach me more German but he's actually quite bad at written German in general.))
I learned Arabic because an archivist friend in the UAE showed me a book called "The Perfumed Garden" and it (by no small measure) is the only 'religious' erotic text written in Islam.))
(Chase has the talent of speaking better than writing, I'm sure he gets by as a child might: 'parrotting' others until he has the necessary cache of words and grammar to memory)
Breaking news: historians believe that they've uncovered a cache of pencils that once belonged to William Shakespeare. A spokesperson said, "They're so badly chewed on the ends, we can't tell if they're 2B or not 2B."
"Napoleon attacked by rabbits" so I had to go google search it. "The story of Napoleon being "defeated" by rabbits during a hunt in 1807 is a humorous anecdote, but it's not a confirmed historical fact, though it is mentioned in General Thiébault's memoirs. "