A query on translation

[Malignd]

<<... and maybe he will discover why it is lots of new
yorkers say "interested on" and why some even say
"interesting on." >>

Although I disbelieve the word "lots," Ed can check in
with me for the answer when he brings me my check.

When I was a child, there was an ad for the Boys Club
of America or some such well-intended organization
that appeared on the inside back cover of some comic
books, itself in the form of a comic strip.  It told
of a young teenager, a rube from our country's farm
belt, who visited his cousin in New York one summer.  

He went of a day with the city boy to play baseball,
only to reap sandlot dismay upon discovering his
cousin's friends to be, well, different:  not white,
all of them, and not altogether fluent, some, in the
mother tongue.  The yokel thought them "not of our
kind."  

Later, caught up in the action of the game underway,
one of the off-white lads cried out, "Caramba!  That's
hitting them baseball!"  Of which fractured locution
the rube remarked, in an aside to his cousin, "get
that:  can't even speak English!"  Yet only a few
frames later, the young Latino hit a homerun, enabling
the city cousin to plant the needle in Jethro's
chagrin, saying "I guess THAT's hitting them
baseball!"

Alas, these years later, that young rural (wiser now,
he hopes) has grown into the man typing these words.  

And that young Latino boy, also grown to manhood, has
moved in next door to Terrance.







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