Mom?

[Silver Creek Slim]

<Wanders in>

< Smacks Slim with her hat>

< Wanders out, laughing>



AnnieLee

Whatcha do that fer? I thought it was logical. 

Slim

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim and  Trinity,

I'm so proud of you two for staying awake in German class back in school!

I took (wasted) 2 years of Germerman in HS, and another year in college.  I really learned little except for pronunciation.  It took 8 years stationed in Fulda, (then) West Germany with a tank crewman in my platoon who was born in California, but raised in Heidelberg from age 6 on.  His name was Klaus.  I taught him English and he taught me German.  (He taught a lot more to ME than he needed me to teach him. )

It was kinda cool when my German friends told me that I didn't speak with an American accent and that I could probably pass for German.

Alas, that was 15 - 16 years ago and I've forgotten plenty.

When I took German in college, my roommate, whose Mutter is from Germany, took German at the same time, so my retention was probably better than if he had not been my roommate. His father met and married her when he was in the Army in W. Germany.

Slim

[Malachi Thorne]

[feigning underbite] Really, old chums, we called our parents "Mater" and "Pater" [/feigning underbite]

I have the honor to remain,

Your Obedient Servant,

Bvt. Captain Malachi Thorne

(...who occasionally yucks it up by immitating Thurston Howell III)

[Guns Garrett]

My dad (from MO.) referred to his parents (born 1896, 1890) as "mom and pop" (Grandma and Grampa to us kids). My mom (ARK) referred to hers (born 1900, 1896) as "momma and daddy" (Granny and Grandad to us) Granpa referred to his parents (b. 1867, 1870) as "Mam" and  "Pap". Granny and grandma both referred to their parents as "momma and daddy"  (Family didn't talk much about grandad's father - I think he was a  [gasp] "scoundrel".)  My wife and I prefer "Grandma and Grandpa" to the baby-talk "meemaw and pee-paw" or such.  I kinda like the old Dutch/Boer terms "Oudma en Oudpa"

[Ozark Tracker]

Guns,  what part of Mo were your grandparents from that used the mam and pap, I know my granddad used those therms.  He was born in Radical Mo. just west of Branson now in the lake.  lake wasn't there then.  just curious