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CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: David In Indy on March 06, 2010, 04:41:40 am ---No no no! That would be a poo poo, or a foo foo, or a whoo hoo!
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Now see, we always called passing gas a "foo foo".
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Sason on March 06, 2010, 04:50:24 am ---"Im Märzen der Bauer die Rösslein einspannt..."
"In March the farmer harnesses the little horse..."
( I admit it -- I cheated..... Had to look "Rösslein" up. Found it in an online facsimile of an old dictionary)
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--- Quote from: Penthesilea on March 06, 2010, 05:01:21 am ---Little horses, plural. But I'm impressed. Did you learn German at school?
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I looked it up, too, in my old copy of Langenscheidt's German-English/English German dictionary.
But what does it mean? To start the spring plowing? Or is it a poetic way of saying something else? ???
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 06, 2010, 11:41:31 pm ---I looked it up, too, in my old copy of Langenscheidt's German-English/English German dictionary.
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I also have an old Langenscheidt from my school days! I didn't know they are also used "on the other side". :)
That's so cool 8).
--- Quote ---But what does it mean? To start the spring plowing? Or is it a poetic way of saying something else? ???
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Yup, the farmer starts the spring plowing. No hidden meaning. The song goes on with details of what he, the wife and the maidservants are doing in spring, and concludes with an outlook to harvest time and the next winter.
It is a poetic respectively antiquated choice of words though. Märzen instead of März, and Ross/Rösslein instead of Pferd.
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on March 06, 2010, 11:00:26 pm ---Now see, we always called passing gas a "foo foo".
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You Easterners and your fancy talk! ;)
In my neck of the woods a "foo foo" is a "poo poo" and passing gas is simply a "fart".
:laugh: :laugh:
Or if you did it as you quickly passed by someone (or a group of people) it is called "crop dusting". :laugh:
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: David In Indy on March 07, 2010, 05:55:34 am ---Or if you did it as you quickly passed by someone (or a group of people) it is called "crop dusting". :laugh:
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Oh yeah, we use that term too! :laugh:
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