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Your experience with idiomorphs.



 
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Your experience with idiomorphs. #1 (permalink) Wed Jun 10, 2009 18:49 pm   Your experience with idiomorphs.
 

Hello,

Have you ever heard a kid saying words that do not exist in his/her mother tongue to refer to something? For example, saying 'la la' to mean 'cat', 'kaki' to mean 'water' or something like that.

Thank you in advance.

Mouhcine

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Your experience with idiomorphs. #2 (permalink) Wed Jun 10, 2009 19:06 pm   Your experience with idiomorphs.
 

My brother used for a long time the word 'sasasatscha'.

It was supposed to mean 'Waschlappen', which in English is a wash cloth.

He had a few of these words (I'd say I had some, too), but I don't recall them anymore.

I think he used 'Lokomutti', for Lokomotive.
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Your experience with idiomorphs. #3 (permalink) Wed Jun 10, 2009 23:24 pm   Your experience with idiomorphs.
 

Shyone wrote:
My brother used for a long time the word 'sasasatscha'.

It was supposed to mean 'Waschlappen', which in English is a wash cloth.

He had a few of these words (I'd say I had some, too), but I don't recall them anymore.

I think he used 'Lokomutti', for Lokomotive.


Thank you very much. :)
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