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[cosmolinguist]

"What a stupid language German is. You have to wait until the end of the sentence to find out what the verb is. But my attitude by then is, Who cares?? I think I might start calling my father Vater and my mum Mutter just for a change. Vati and Mutti for short."

this is from a book called Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging, sort of a teenage version of the Bridget Jones thing--a diary by a British girl who's quite amusing, only this one happens to be fourteen; an age that's intristically a joke, anyway

Oh, by the way, I'm taking German too, and I love it. Still, the idea of calling one's parents Mutti and Vati has some appeal to me...

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[ivana-duboise.livejournal.com]

German is silly like that. Whenever I translate something it always reminds of Yoda: "Found someone you have." But of course in german that would be something like, Du hast jemand gefunded. (i.e. You have someone found.) *shrug*