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Yesterday, picking my kids from summer school..
My daughter says: (sorry, she says it in Russian)
"Я сегодня познакомилась с мальчиком. Мы с ним будем мириться."
After short questionning on what she meant by that, I discovered that they are going to be married. She is almost 5, by the way.
English language abuse :D
Your daughter is almost 5, and she speaks English and Russian??? WOW!!!! :o
I have been meaning to ask you, (sorry if you already answered this, I couldn't find it...) Did you adopt a Russian girl, or are you a native Russian living in Kansas City?
-Fantom
I am a native Russian living in Kansas city.
Linguistic interference. I always enjoy this wonderful phenomenon. Thanks for the story! :D
:) All multi-lingual young kids will mix up words, I think around 6-7 they start to manage to speak two languages without mistakes...Quote:
Originally Posted by CTPEKO3A
The smartest kid I ever met was my niece. She can read and write and speak fluently in English, she can do all kids of addition and subtraction, and she speaks near fluent Japanese.
She is 4 years old.
Sie ist ein Wunderkind! :)
(A prodigy child, who doesn't take pleasure in German).
Sorry, CTPEKO3A, I didn't get it - where's the interference in the phrase мы с ним будем мириться? Either I'm thick or there's none. мириться could hardly have been brought on by "to get married" - the words sound very different (as different as "samizdat" and "chicken run") and mean totally different things. Where's the interference in that, pray tell me. Now, when someone says "magazine" when he means "shop", that's interference. Мириться and get married ain't. Or did she say мэридся? Now, that would've been a different story. (But I must say мэридся sounds kinda ugly)
Dear VendingMashine,
Have you ever heard kids talking? They not really pronounce words proper yet (especially at the age of 4). Girls have intention to speak softly. So, the word "marry" in the fraze "he will marry me" sounds pretty close to "мири". Making verb out of it, using her best knowledge and ability, gave a result of "мирить". I found that amusing. May be it's just because everything my kids are doing is amusing to me..
And by the way - my son often use your other example of "magazine - shop". I don't think it's funny, because people don't get what he is trying to say.
Two guys are in a lifeboat shipwrecked. One guy finds a bottle floating in the water. He rubs it and a genie comes out and tells him, "For releasing me I grant you one wish."
The guy, without even thinking says, "Turn this ocean into beer."
As the ocean is turning into the best tasting beer in the world the other guy goes, "You idiot, now we'll have to pee in the boat."
True story!
Hahaha...
They have buckets though, right? Pee in those. OR! ...I don't know.
Haha though.
Do you know what's the difference between beer and pee?
It gets harder to tell after the first few beers.
About a half of an hour??? :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rtyom
-Fantom
How could you turn a story of my sweet daughter into this??!!
:lol:
Plus, I seriously doubt that this was a true story :)
Too long :lol: Nope.Quote:
Originally Posted by fantom605
As a matter of fact, there's no differnce. It's all about packages.
You're forgetting that when you signed up, you accepted certain agreements before it would let you. One of those agreements is that by posting, you're consenting to us being able to totally change your thread from an innocent story to beer and pee jokes!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by CTPEKO3A
I think MasterAdmin personally added that one in! :lol:
-Fantom
:o
Was I supposed to read that stuff when signed in?
OOPS, I didn't.
I guess I don't have anyone to blame for that but me...
Well, shame on me.
That is called highjacking a thread and is fairly common, especially when someone leaves a door open.
Cheers,
Can we say 'threadjacking'? :roll:
Rtyom. Your sig is the coolest! Who's poem is that?
Thank you so much. :roll: It's mine :oops: I wrote it on the 26th May 2000, but this datum didn't get into the signature field; too long. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogboy182
And it looks a bit otherwise; this site doesn't support the formatting.
By and large, this was my second poem ever written. Since then I have many. It's just for your information. :wink:
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Originally Posted by Rtyom
Then this is your official invitation to post more. :wink:
-Fantom
D'you really mean I could do with more opuses? It's embarrassing. Though just a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by fantom605
Come on!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rtyom
-Fantom
Awright, awright, don' press! :lol:
I decided to share one of my sentimental-oriented works...
It's not really serious, and is just an adorable dedication. ;)
Татьяны имя для меня родней других имён.
С ним на устах всегда смелее я; с ним, кажется, силён.
Не нужно больше ничего – лишь имя помнить это.
Я знаю, что оно поможет в нелёгкий час мне где-то.
Заветные семь букв сливаются как в сказке –
Жизнь полностью становится иной от их незримой ласки...
Всё сразу забывается, уходит в никуда.
Как не охота возвращаться в реальность иногда!
Мир грубый и жестокий здесь, но всё-таки наш дом,
А с именем любимым пройду я напролом.
Ничто не страшно, всё перетерплю, чтоб тихо ей шепнуть на ушко
То, что пронёс сквозь злость и ненависть людей:
«Татьяна милая» и нежное «Танюша»...
Any comments are welcome. If you'd like I can record myself saying it to practice your phonetics. :)
lol...thats really cool.... You are neat... We were talking last week were we not? Because we live near eachother... yes.... that is right... Your daughter is cute! :D