Re: [Cz-L] Dementia or what?

Hi Andi
Yes
I have the same happening to me
I am 84 year young
I spoke German with my parents and sister until about 1960
I spoke German withy family and Yiddish with my grandfather
Latter I learned French when I lived in Paris
The other day suddenly I remembered the following in German
" Eine good gebratene Gans is eine gute gabe Gotes"
And
wier Wiener Wescherinen wolen weisse Wasche waschen wen wiesen wo warme s wasser ware"
Excuse for spelling mistake

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Regards

Maurice Linker
Tel 0293631399 Mob 0410808599
Preferred email : linkerm_at_ieee.org

> On 25 Oct 2014, at 8:04 pm, Andy Halmay <venivici.andy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>

> 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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