Crazywords
Growing up bilingual, I found certain German expressions downright hilarious:Bauchspeicheldruese = stomach spittle gland = pancreasMutterkuchen = moth... read more
9 months ago
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Cute Doesn't Qualify as Carte Blanche
(A vent after a trip to the mall.) Just bec. your daughter is on first glance a cute little 2 year old "doll" doesn't mean she has license ... read more
1 years ago
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Forged Santa
As a first generation German-American kid used to celebrating 4 weeks of Advent and opening the presents on Xmas Eve, I had a slightly unconventional ... read more
10 months ago
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Precocious Prescience
When I was 3 and we were living in ALA, we were driving thru the industrial area of town one day, me lying in the back seat, gazing out the window at ... read more
1 years ago
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Stuck on Bg
When I was a kid growing up in a "financially-challenged" German household in the middle of Denver, my mom never allowed me to have bubblegum (other t... read more
1 years ago
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Symptomatic
A young Mexican couple sat down right next to me on the short wooden bench @ the laundromat. While they're jabbering away in Spanish, their cute... read more
9 months ago
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Word Extinction
I posted a super short entry recently about defunct words. But there's a related defunction that's just as distressing: reading. As ... read more
1 years ago
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