Plautdietsch phrase of the day: Moot tou toospräakjen
The Tjnals Rapel’shu seemed to be one of those people who always complained. The komst borscht was always too sour. The heena never laid enough eggs. The weather was always too cold. And Peita could never do anything right. In her later years she moved to the Menno heim in Blumenort after Uncle Peita passed away. Her grandchildren came to vist her when she moved in. Artie asked her, how she liked it in Blumenort. His grandma replied, “dot stink’t hea no en schwienstaul” (it stinks like a pig barn around here). To which little Artie replied, “don’t worry grandma, if it smells like pigs around here, that means you’ll have forma worscht (farmer sausage) sometime soon!
Moot tou toospräakjen: to encourage
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