What’s one thing you wish you had started doing earlier in life?
Haven’t grown up in Pennsylvania and now trying to get a grasp for the German language there’s a lot of connections between the two. There are other parts of speaking in Pennsylvania that have greater connections to aliens from outer space..
- Basic Sentence Structure – Throw the Cow over the Fence some Hay. I showed this sentence to my German teacher and she said it made perfect sense. As a sidenote, you noticed the nouns are capitalized, which is pure German..
- Egal – it don’t matter. Until I was 25 years old I said it don’t matter. It doesn’t matter all that much however Egal is a German term that takes care of that.
- Fur dum side dun a wetter. My dad used to say this all the time. He claimed it meant it’s is thundering and lightning. Egal.
- Now it all makes sense.
Outen the lights.” — Turn off the lights (from the German Mach’s Licht aus). - My Grand mom said this all the time
Red up your room.” — Clean up or tidy up your space. - Quit rooching around. [squirming] – I can see the connection now as I can see somebody going down the sliding board. Rutsch is German for slide.
- With a side of dippy eggs. Just another term for sunny side up.,
- Carly Marbles –
Childhood Idiom (Tummy Ache): In regional folklore, “Carly marbles” is an old colloquial phrase used to describe a stomachache or intestinal cramps resulting from eating too much sugar. It likely shares etymological roots with the word “colic”. - Not to be confused with marbles. The term is Mibsters. The local newspapers used to cover the marbles tournament or maybe they still do like it was the seventh game of the World Series.
There are many more, but this came to mine as I was eating a green apple this morning and my grandmother used to say Mark you’re going to get Carly marbles. The goal throw the cow some horse over the fence. I read up your room.because It don’t matter.
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