Touching elegy. It's striking how difficult it is for the children of transplants in the US to preserve (and pass along) the family language and traditions. Th

Touching elegy. It's striking how difficult it is for the children of transplants in the US to preserve (and pass along) the family language and traditions. There're communtities, there's a diaspora, books etc, yet somehow the whole aversion to 'accented' English may be off-putting to the youngsters that it stops them from fully absorbing their parents culture and language, turning it in all but a nuissance of 'old-folks'.