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

Charles and Cornel,

As I remember it, Czernowitzer German was not "ohne Pfeffer und Salz",
probably the opposite, too much pepper and salt and of course Paprika ,
maybe also Hühner-Schmalz.
This brings to my mind, that Heine is supposed to have said to his wife:
"Süße Puppe, hast versalzen mir die Suppe". Did we oversalt the German
language?

Mimi

On 9/12/10 3:28 PM, "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net> wrote:

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