Sebi: Linguistic Artist

This little boy doesn't think he knows German. A few months back he informed me that he only knew one German word: "wasser". The problem is that he doesn't know what is German and what is English. Sort of. His orthopedic surgeon got a huge kick out of the fact that when Rob was talking to him in German at the hospital, he said "Dad, talk English to me!", but the kid had a broken arm! Last week while I was out one night, Rob had Sebi and Joss at home. He took advantage of the time by playing Star Wars with Sebi and speaking lots of German with him. It backfired on him.
Sebi said he was tired. Rob repeated it in German "Ich bin mude" to have Sebi say it. Sebi said, a la Jar Jar Binks, "Mesa mude". He tried to get Sebi to say "Wir sind in der Badewanne" and Sebi said "Wesa in der Badewanne".
Currently Sebi seems to be winning this war. It remains to be seen who comes out ahead once we're in Austria and there are good things to be had for those who can say them. I don't know if "Oh mooey mooey I love Kaiserschmarrn" is going to play well in the empire's capital.

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Anonymous said…
Is this trip to Austria soon?
11:19 PM
Mary Ann said…
yup. coming up way too fast, in fact. It is our turn to take a Study Abroad group to Vienna.
1:34 PM
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