Friday, October 16, 2009

And the lightbulb goes off

I am not good with foreign languages. I never have been.

Last night I was running the days of the week in German through my head, proud of myself that I now know all of them.

Then I realized that Wednesday, Mittwoch, is actually two words combined. Mittlere, which means middle, and woche, which means week.

Which makes sense because Wednesday is in the middle of the week.

And it only took me 16.5 months of living here to put that together.

Like I said, I'm not good with foreign languages.
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6 comments:

  1. ChantalOctober 16, 2009 at 6:12 AM

    Wow, sadly enough, I never thought of that. I won't say how many months l've been using German...

    But I do like the word Handschuhe. That is just too cute. A shoe for the hands, in other words, a mitten.

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  2. grammieOctober 16, 2009 at 12:16 PM

    Don't worry. It took me until I was 20 to realize that The BelLoc
    Dinner was named b/c it sits
    on the Beltway & Loch Raven Blvd.

    DUH

    Oh well...something to laugh at :)

    L & H
    Mom

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  3. NVOctober 16, 2009 at 8:41 PM

    I'm assuming you've now also noticed that Sonntag is the same as Sunday and Donnerstag (Thunder) is the same as Thursday (Thor, Norse god of thunder's) day.

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  4. shanOctober 20, 2009 at 6:44 AM

    If you think German is hard, you should try Czech! Every time someone says something, I'm like could you spell that for me, please?

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  5. mrschlosserOctober 22, 2009 at 7:15 AM

    My favorites:
    Kindergarten = garden full of children
    Fingerhut = finger hat, aka thimble

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  6. mrsmacOctober 22, 2009 at 7:25 AM

    Chantal- I like that one!

    Grammie- Yep, never put that together either.

    eNVy- Nope! Probably because I didn't know the words. Thanks for the lesson! Never knew the meaning behind Thursday, cool!

    Shan- I can only imagine. How is Greek?

    MrsSchlosser- I like those too!

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