Friday, June 09, 2006

Funny Dutch Words

pannenlikker = spatula
flessenlikker = bottle scraper

For some reason, these words really crack me up. They remind me of Dad reading about Cinderella flopping her dripper!

2 Comments:

At 10:00 AM, Blogger Dan said...

Kim has a new favorite word too - it's "weltschmertz"

\Welt"schmertz`\, n. [G., fr. welt world + schmertz pain. See World; Smart, v. i.]
Sorrow or sadness over the present or future evils or woes of the world in general; sentimental pessimism.

(http://dict.die.net/weltschmertz/)

It's the word that knocked out the 2nd place finisher in the big spelling bee that was on tv a week or so ago.

And we're not sure what the opposite of weltschmertz is, but whatever the opposite is, that's what I have... :)

 
At 4:30 AM, Blogger Kim said...

Hey that's pretty cool, Dan! Thanks for sharing. :)

 

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