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Day 7: Today's Positive Step

Snapsy said:
It's all too easy to ask for your loaf to be circumcised (beschnitten) rather than sliced (geschnitten) in a German bakery. It was days before that was pointed out to me........ by the people who'd been selling me bread regularly. The cliche about the German sense of humour is such a fib!
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A high protein, low carb loaf I hope?! ;)
 
Rachox said:
A high protein, low carb loaf I hope?! ;)
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Not back then! I ate as had been recommended at the time, basing all meals on a dictated-by-the-hospital amount of carbs, and it was before I was doing any dose adjustment or had any say on my carb intake (this was pre-DAFNE) so I had very irregular blood sugars and weighed a good deal more than I do now!

Mind you the Dreikornbrot (three-seed loaf) was lecker (delicious) and I didn't mind quite - ahem - how it was sliced......
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When I was 19, I lived in Paris (every bit as amazing as you think, and this was in '95, the year Paris was "cool" - also The Big Strike, all those bomb attacks and snow at Christmas) and, while I reached a general level of fluency in about 3 months, I was still making some "brilliant" errors:

- Missing my stop on the Metro and announcing "C'etait m'arrete!" (That was my fish-bone)

- Cutting my hand (mildly) in a bar and announcing "Je suis enceinte!" ("I am pregnant" instead of "Je suis en sang" - I'm bleeding)

- The time I taught my 2-year-old, upper-middle-class charge (I was an au pair) that ducks in Parc de Sceaux were called "conards" (arseholes) instead of "canards" (ducks)

I honestly thing these types of stories are why anyone bothers to learn new languages :)
 
You're so welcome. I like you, too - and that GORGEOUS superstar princess in your profile pic (Seriously, I have wig-envy).

Much love and good readings,

Sock x
 
Brightened my day too. Like you, simply trying to find positive ways each day....
Joyful to read yours..
 
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