RE: [Cz-L] Our love affair with the German from cornel fleming on 2010-09-12 (The Czernowitz-L Archive)

From: cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:28:34 +0100
To: 'Charles Rosner' <frenchczern1_at_yahoo.com>, 'Czernowitz Genealogy and History' <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Reply-to: cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>

Charles..da waren Pfeffer und Salz aber 'ne andere Mischung!!! Cornel

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Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Our love affair with the German

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> Hi Mimi!
> You are right: now that you mention it, I remember that my
> mother told me she adressed her parents with "Der Papa" and
> "Die Mama". I only mentioned "Sie" as opposed to "Du".
> I spoke German with my parents in Paris, but now that they are gone for so
long and that I have no opportunity to speak it, it somehow slowly fades
away. Probably, what is fading away is the better part of German (the
Hochdeutsch) I learned at school, which made it that German people were
surprised at my good pronunciation and knowledge of the language, but
couldn't tell from where I came as my way of speaking was <ohne Pfeffer und
Salz>
Regards,
Charles
>

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