I have 10 books in Danish all from the 1950s that I am looking for a good home for. (Once upon a time--when I thought they were in Swedish--I thought I'd teach myself Swedish by learning to read them by way of a Swedish-German dictionary and a German language book on Swedish grammar. ...Not that either of those--which I still have also--would ( Read more... )

My BRILLIANT 7-year-old daughter? Just walked into the living room and said, "Daddy, my night light is not working properly."

Seen first with marag. Totally cool survey and study on the influence of Yiddish and Hebrew on English!

Go forth, spread to the ends of the earth (or at least the English-speaking parts), and make sure as many goyim as possible have a chance to participate!

My 6-year-old son has started to use the word "minions" in conversation (correctly). I couldn't figure it out until he was playing some computer game in the living room and kept turning around to Husband and me to declare indignantly, "[Monster] and his minions killed me AGAIN!!!!"

::So Proud::

I hate euphemisms, especially for death ( Read more... )

Ben's new response to someone he's upset with is to do what we do to the kids. He puts up a hand like a police "Halt!" and says, "NO! No." He glowers ( Read more... )

So Ben's communication skills have been in explosion mode the last month. It's been VERY exciting. He's gone from tugging on hands and directing us to things and the Faceplant of Despair when we can't read his mind to telling us what he wants outright--usually in full sentences!

This means, since he's 3 1/2, that he's also telling us what he ( Read more... )

I finished! Graded the last four this morning ( Read more... )

In the two days since I've been home (I graded at mtgat's on Saturday with the kids along, then was at taraljc's the past 2 days...blessings on both of them), my daughter has grown up still more ( Read more... )

One of my students, who is Lithuanian, asked me today if I was German because I had an accent. I grinned, told her my husband's family is German, part of my background is, but, no, not really. Then I asked where she caught me, and she said on my "a" sounds and how I said names, and just certain things. I told her that I'd now spoken German for ( Read more... )