[Cz-L] Dementia or what?

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To Czernowitzers in their 80s! Do you have problems similar to mine or am
I starting to get dementia? I bought a pumpkin yesterday and cut it up to
make some soup and freeze the rest. This morning I wanted to check online
for the proper way to make pumpkin seeds like we used to be able to buy on
the streets of Cz. And then it happened! I couldn=E2=80=99t think of the =
name
=E2=80=9Cpumpkin=E2=80=9D to type into Google. I racked my brain but no na=
me would come
up. "Kurbis" came to me but not pumpkin. Like most of you, the first
language I learned was German. In school I added Romanian and French. From
my dad I picked up a bit of Hungarian. He kept it as his private language
to use with his Hungarian friends but I listened in and picked some up
anyway. So, technically, English is my 4th language. But my English took
over 74 years ago. I can no longer converse in my first three languages.
I have been *thinking* in English for over 70 years, but lately I find
myself groping for certain simple words and then the German version of it
will pop up in mein Kopf. So I went to an online translation service,
typed in Kurbis and got pumpkin. Problem solved - but only possible while
at my PC. Is this normal in our 80s?
Andy Halmay

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