[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Gemutlichkeit
- From: Sue Tomlinson <arcturusgermanshepherds@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jkerner@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:42:41 -0500
...and wouldn't the world be a better place if we were all Gemutlich?
Although, here in Pa. Dutch country we try to be gezelligheid, which if
said to fast sounds like: gezundheid! Which makes for much confusion, eh
Jakey?
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Jane E Kerner <jkerner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The German Grossmutter taught many lessons in my neighborhood when I was a
> little girl so very long ago.
> Some of the Kinder on my block did not always get along well.
>
> And sometimes the Kindergarten teacher at school would tell some of the
> parents (including mine) that sometimes their Wunderkind didn't play well
> with others.....that they were sometimes critical of their classmates' art
> work.
>
> And sometimes in the summer, when die Grossmutter heard the Kinder
> outside being somewhat confrontational with one another, she would come
> right out the kitchen door into the yard and shout to us playing on the
> swing set:
>
> "Gemutlichkeit ! Gemutlichkeit ! You Kinder must be Gemutlich while you
> play."
>
> (Only she said the word "Gemutlichkeit" with the umlaut over the letter
> "u".)
>
> We did stop to listen to a few more sentences in German which we did not
> understand.
>
> Even the German Shepherd Dogs in the back yard stopped to listen when
> Grossmutter came out of the kitchen door in her apron and waving a spoon.
>
> "What's Gemutlichkeit, Grossmutter ?" we all asked.
>
> "No Apfelkuchen for you Kinder unless you are Gemutlich," she answered.
> "It's the same as what your Kindergarten teacher says about you sometimes,
> except the opposite."
>
> Sometimes die Grossmutter could be a little puzzling to me and my friends.
> But we did get the idea.
>
> Being Gemutlich, with an umlaut, is always better than challenging your
> classmate's artwork.
>
> Jane Kerner
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