Friday, April 23, 2010

Bilingual Blues

There are some hazards involved in speaking another language exclusively with your children.

The V-meister and J-dog are still young enough that they haven't rebelled against the mother tongue, and think nothing of addressing me in Lithuanian wherever we happen to be.

The other day J-dog and I happened to be at Target, where many colorful items of craptastic plastic caught his discerning eye.

He ran up and down the aisles, happily pointing things out and shouting, "This! This! Mama, look at this! Ooooo, I want this! And this! And this!"

We got a lot of condescending looks.

Because the Lithuanian word for "this" . . .


is "šitas" ("SHIT-US.")



And this is neither here nor there, but I thought I'd share it:

Book Title Translation FAIL

6 comments:

Becca said...

Hahaha shitus!! That's one way to make errand running fun!

Karen Jensen said...

I think shitus is perfectly appropriate.

S said...

Heheheheh.

Mrs. G. said...

I sense a Disney porn movie in the making.

Vodka Mom said...

That might have to be my word of the day in kindergarten.

Think the parents will wonder?

Kat said...

HAHAHAHAHA!!!! That is too funny. And that book title is hilarious!