Another Edition of "No, Really, We Talk Like This"

[gnomi]

Scene: mabfan and gnomi are playing with Muffin and Squeaker. Muffin and Squeaker are gurgling and babbling.

mabfan: I want their first word to be "Daddy is the greatest person in the world."

gnomi: That's not one word.

mabfan: It is in German!

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[celli]

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[gnomi.livejournal.com]

:-)

::hugs::

[beadattitude.livejournal.com]

::gigglesnort:: Ain't that the truth!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Ah, German grammar. My dad tells a joke about a guy who comes in to a lecture in German and tells the guy sitting next to him that he is only going to stay for the introductory sentence. Twenty-five minutes later, the guy stands up to leave. "Why did you stay so long?" his next-seat neighbor asks. "I was waiting for the verb," replies the first guy.

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

LJ. Let's redefine "how to embarrass the next generation." *giggles*

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I will likely lock all these posts if LJ still exists when they're old enough to read them.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

You guys are wonderful and I miss you lots. *hugs*

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

We miss you, tooooo! We should get together some night, maybe have you here for dinner (we're not so portable these days with the little ones).

::big hugs::

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I am shocked that, as I write this, no German speaker has yet followed up with said word.

I don't speak German, so I can't.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I know. I was hoping someone would supply the word.

[elul-3.livejournal.com]

That was Devora's first word, but it came out more like "Daaaaaaaaa!!"

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Heh.

They both say something that sounds to me like "Ah-rah-yo." I keep telling them they're too young to learn the section on arayot, and that I won't even explain it to them on Yom Kippur until they're much older.

[violetcheetah.livejournal.com]

i have a friend who claims there is a single word in german for "a meadow in which it is enjoyable to frolic."

if their first words do happen to be in german, that would be... something. unless it's 'gesundheit.'

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I was taught in one of my linguistics classes in college that there is one German word that means "the hat belonging to the man who sails his boat down the Danube River."

They might also say things in Yiddish, which is kind of like German. I use a very small amount of Yiddish with them, so it wouldn't be 100% out of left field.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

You can do things like this in German, but it's pretty exceptional.

Yup'ik (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=esu) (among others), on the other hand (http://www.sil.org/linguistics/glossaryOflinguisticTerms/WhatIsAPolysyntheticLanguage.htm)...