O/T for Klaus

[Shari]

Klaus,

Not a syllable.  I do however, know bad words in many languages 
including Urdu, Spanish, French, Italian, and probably others I've 
forgotten :-)

My forte was dancing.  It got away from me a couple years ago, and I 
do miss it.  I'm not familiar with the Sinti and Roma, having sprung 
from a renegade group of "runaway gypsies" who did not "fit" among 
the norm.  I've often thought about tracing the family tree to learn 
more about them.  They were not talked about much.  My family was 
great at gossip about some aunt or cousin, but history?  Even just my 
mother's younger years were something she refused to talk about.  And 
I do mean refused.  Whatever it was, she did not want to remember.

My persona reminded her of those years and things she did not want to 
remember.  And we clashed a lot.  I was the "oddball" in the family, 
who by then had become normalized, but I retained the wayward genes.

Shari


>Hi Shari,
>
>(latscho dives, romeza)
>Sorry, but do you speak "romanes", a bit maybe?
>Or are "irish" gypsies a totally different thing from
>the "european" Sinti and Roma?
>
>I had been working with some gypsy guys, played the bass in
>some "sinti jazz" bands (a la Django Reinhardt), so i know some
>"romanes" terms (and a LOT of swing tunes) :-)


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