I have never figured out how to post pictures on here but today Matt posted a photo of me over on my Xanga site:http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=dorcassmucker
I hope to post pictures of the rest of the family sometime.
Quote of the Day:
"Ach, zu natural!"
(Translation: Oh, too natural!)
--my mom, whenever she saw a picture of herself
Yep, nice pic!
ReplyDeleteThe Baritone
Ach, zu nice, y'all!
ReplyDeleteI visited Virginia for the first time in 1998 and GA, FL, and NC in 2002. I loved the accent, the word "y'all," the manners, and the swate tae. I even learned to put a honeyed tone in my voice and ask, "Y'all want some mo' swate tae?" My children, blunt Yankees that they are, did not appreciate this Southern graciousness.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Paul. You look 20 years younger than I imagined you looking. :-)
ReplyDeleteVas sedda se sawa? Sis reght haught fah reght schriva in deitch.......eigh been sada falawda.......:)
ReplyDeleteAg
De Mam un Dat dehda sowa--Ach, du gricksht glei grow-y hawr un dei kninna maha dich glei alt.
ReplyDeleteSorry to you non-dutchies.
People I meet often say they pictured me older and heavier(!)from reading my stories. Not sure how this works.
Des is goot shtuft. Mayas des schmised meigh gons op. Arlene, vo bished do foon? Eigh sawk shrIva, net shrEva! Ach vell. Sis awfet selle lite as vasa net ve fah schwetza.
ReplyDeleteOh MY! Ladies, that is extremely difficult. Tell me, have you ever read any Boonastial (Boonastiel? pronounced bonashteel). If you haven't you absolutely must! I can't read it too well, but it is hysterical to have a good old dutchmen read it for you. It's a favorite pastime at family gatherings, and the people that don't know Dutch, laugh hysterically just watching the people that do! Fun stuff! They have got to be the most hilarious "Dutch stories" you ever heard in your life.
Ag
Oh yah. Dorcas, de Arlene hught stot ve goot do guksht. Eigh set un hilah si! Eigh hop KEN kennah........un gook ve eigh gook! HUFF! Des is vesht, eigh mus gay jogga. :)
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I have totally lost the thread here, being non-dutchified. I suppose my grandparents might have had a clue, but I sure don't!
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Oh hots noch-a-mol, des iss goot fuh mich fuh laha vee des. Es halt mich yung!
ReplyDeleteAg, de Bonnie sawkt du gooksht shay un du musht net gay heila odda jogga!
Arlene, du bisht aw noch yung un fol peffa un du gooksht gawh net alt! Nah shick dich un leek net!
Have any of you read the Pa. Dutch New Testament? I love watching Dutch-speakers read it for the first time...the look on their faces is priceless.
EG, sorry we lost you, but this is fun. I haven't written a dutch conversation in years, probably not since I sent coded notes to my sister in high school.
Um, Dorcas, is this picture 20 years old, or... a picture of one of your daughters, or....perhaps an Oil of Olay commercial? : ) Very nice!! I seem to remember you mentioning grey hair resulting from Matt's experiments - where are they? I know, I know, you would say they just don't show up on the picture... I would say that you appear to be a "maiden", but you have the responsibilities, and the experience, of a "matron"! (Which is what I was visualizing you as, I guess...) Good for you! I fear that, for me, it shall never be!!
ReplyDeleteBTW, all you Dutch speakers - I find it ironic that I am out of the loop right now because I don't speak Dutch, when my parents refrained from teaching us Dutch so that we would fit in better!! We lived in a "mission" setting in a Kentucky holler - (Caney Creek -not far from Bethel Camp.) Now they wish they would have spoken it with us. They did find it useful for having private conversations right in front of us! Oh, how nice it would be to have that option now with our kids! (to have a private conversation, that is!)
Maybe Matt air-brushed the picture and added the pierced ear while he was at it?
ReplyDeleteSheryl, I think it's traggic when both parents speak another "language" and don't teach it to their children. Dutch doesn't SEEM like it's even another language, but from the poor lost non-dutch, it clearly is. :) Sorry, to everyone else. This is too fun! And trust me, it wouldn't be NEARLY as funny if you got someone to translate it. The humor is lost in translation.
ReplyDeleteArlene, ich mus all veight faleida! Sis net foon fa baveda! Ich glich net jogga. Sell mught mich puffa un hot schnaffa un no mi sticht grickt gons vesht rot un ich schvits ve un hassa maun.
Dorcas, de Bonnie is gons shay. Is sell da Byran sy mam? Ich sodda vas se. Von ich vocks ough (ich been un baveda) no ich stell si usht ve de Bonnie. Se is an goot frau!
Ag
Ach my, deah vipes-lite sin usht tsoo fonnich.
ReplyDeleteOk, the picture is two years old. It was taken by my friend EG and was on the back cover of my book. Never noticed the 'pierced ear' before, ha ha!, EG, did you put that there??
I probably won't take another official portrait til I publish another book.
Trust me, I look older in less posed, lighting-controlled pictures, like those dreadful flash-in-your-face pictures my children take. I just didn't feel like posting those for some reason.
Ag, meah vella all sei vee de Bonnie. Sigh.
Vell, ich hof deah hent all un gooda dawk un ich hof es ray-ut net
fuh unsa Soondawk-shool picnic heit.
Dorcas if you would like this pic put on your main blogger webpage with your profile I will do it for you. Just email me at gtsawjata at yahoo dot com.
ReplyDeleteArlene--Vos in de velt is 'hupanedi?' Ich bin bissly dick-keppich...
ReplyDeleteIch vinsh ich kent dich sayna choomba uch di trampoline...:)
Flycht von de Ag un blog shtaet dan kommt see neemy tsu unser blogs. Nah sel vaeh un shont!
Ich kent un Deitch blog havva.
ReplyDeleteDa druval us ich hap is vun ich chump ushed ough da budda, alas ough mich schtat shiddla un shtupt net!
OH lovely ladies, I have laughed more in this thread of comments than what I have in the entire blog realm!
Ich hop vella sel sawa so de leight deen vodda us se kenda uns fashta. Vaw sell vesht fon mich? :)
Dorcas, some dawk do stelsht mich senna un ich stell si usht ve de Bonnie un do stelsht sawa "WOW", adda fleight "SHONTLEIGH NOUGH UN MOL!" HAH! Ich usht vot. Se is allas us ich vill si. Sis may us usht ve se gookt! Sis allas us ich can senna in er hauts us is so shay!
Ag
Arlene, is that all one word? Huh! What do you know. With my pitiful dutch spelling I would probably have said hap un ide. HA!
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So far the number of comments on this post come in second. "Books" still holds first rank. Have you noticed that the "Quote of the Day" often gets more comments than the post itself? For example, Steven's comment on the 4th of July about suspenders led to the gust of cape dress and related responses while the photo quote boasted a rash of alien lanuage comments?
ReplyDelete"Hap un ide!" Ich hap ge-glaupt usht my mommie un my frine-shaft fon Kansas sowa sel!
ReplyDeleteOh ich feel so deitch! Ich muss geh my coppa biggla un my shots-un-hals-duch shpella un da gol som hovvah gevva.
Ich det gleigha visa ep eigha mansleight vessa vas fah vilde vipsleight se hen keit!
ReplyDeleteDeigh sint eppas! Ich glop us ich been sadda young fa so on ga mit de eldre vipsleight! ;)
Ag
Ich hop geshta alles translate fuh my mann un aeh hut glacht avva net so feel us eppa us Deitch vayst.
ReplyDeleteArlene, hosht du gvist meah sin 'eldre vipes-lite?' Ich glaup selly Ag is noch yung genunk fa shlake!
What on earth is "schlake". You finally ditched me. Either that or I just misread it, but I tried every angle......please tell me what you are doing to me......!
ReplyDeleteMy mann con all net Deitch schwetsa! ;)
Ag
Ag, Shlake is a spanking, as in "Du dusht sel vidda un ich gep dich shlake!"
ReplyDeleteArlene, this explains a lot about who Ag is and why she does what she does, denksht net??
Ya, Es vist net vas schlake es?? Shantlich!!!
ReplyDeleteHA! So, please explain to me who I am and why I do what I do. Yeah, go for it. I'd really like to know.
ReplyDeleteKfitsed! (Okay, that's such a terrible childhood memory that I have no clue how to spell it!) YA! Ich hop ushed kfitsed vadda!
Do bished un bissel schmat vadda do! Ich stell glie missa eppas do vas!
Ag
Ok ok, Ich wah lets un ich nem's all tsick!
ReplyDeleteIf you got kfitsed instead of shlake you've paid your dues in life.
But oh, the sharp wit, the repartee...where does it come from?
Perhaps we are women endowed with wit of volcanic like nature and it just took the right words to cause it to erupt?
ReplyDeleteAnd the tragedy of it? Most of these poor people have no idea how witty we are. Sigh. There is no one to appreciate us at our peak!
Ich stell ga gooka fa un hassa mann us can des all lassa. No ah dut manna us ich been so schmat un sassy, us ah stelt nonna falla ough da bodda un me frougha ep ich vill si frau si.
(OH SNORT! Ladies, there's more than one way to catch 'em!)
;) Ag
Ag, I am racking my brain for a hassa Man that knows Deitch! I love matchmaking.
ReplyDeletePaul, PA Dutch was never a written language until Wycliffe Translators(!) decided to translate the NT into Dutch and standardized the phonetics. They did a good job too. Trouble is, most of us are still illiterate. They need to come by and have classes in little bamboo huts like they do in Madagascar or wherever.
"Easier to be witty in Dutch" As Garrison Keillor once said, (paraphrased) "One is never so witty or so wise or so romantic in a language learned later in life." He was talking about the old Norweigians in Minnesota but it relates to us who had Pa. Dutch as our first language.
Dutch is way funnier than English.
Ich douts us deigh hent hasse mansleight in Oregon! Ich been un EASTERN maddle! Ich gliegh da East!
ReplyDeleteIch hop net long strick un hassa Amish boo stenna un da vak loffa. Ich het sedda en frowa fa si "phone number"! PAH! Okay, that humored at least me!
Ag
Hey! De Smucker mans-lite sin goot-gookich un shay un shmaet un chite un fashtandich un dale funna sin even rych!! Un see sin all fon da west coast. Ich denk du kansht usht dei Amisha boo havva us by da vake lauft von du denksht sin ken gooty mans-lite in da West.)
ReplyDeleteAvvah ich denk du vit eppa us Deitch schwetst un hopunide du finsht ken fun selly do.
Dorcas, "chite" un "shay" is all us hot mich fanga. Ich gep net feel drom ve se gooka! Sell gat net vit! Mate us grea ugh fanga ogh ve an cal gooked magha me ladegh!
ReplyDeleteArlene, ich vogh alls vilt iva "ke boova" ;) vun ich vow glay!
Actually ladies, I'm not really in the market!
Ich been un veck springa fun se in my hatz! Sell is fleight net goot! Ich brough undem de "eldre veipslite" fa mich helfa my hatz ough halda ve da Hough vill mich fa!
Ag
Ich glop us ich been fashroka fleight! Sell is net goot!
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Ag, sis alright fuh bissel fashrocka sei vach mansleit avva net tsu feel. Ich hop als gedenkt ich vil ken man (vell, fleicht von ich 35 bin) un Gott hot missa mich deich un lot du fuh my hots uch macha. Es wah net fon ulsamol.
ReplyDeleteIch hop som "issues" kot fun uch vocksa.
Ich hop nah un goota mann un ich hop als-noch som issues avva ich hof net so feel.
Ich dat gligha dy story hadda! Kentshd mich e-mail shicka? Ich dat gligha may svetsa vah des, mas net do!
ReplyDeleteIch been net fashroka fun mansleight "in general", ich been usht recht "wary" fun selle us meghta my hots nough gay. Sis ve ich vill my hots stechla fun se, so us ich been "safe".
Ag
Vel, now, Ich hop mench von des lasa kena un ich hop net missa my mol gay macha. Ich kon ava net audich goot scriva in Deitch. Sis awh net easy fuh lasa, ava sis fun bavida. :)
ReplyDeleteIch date sawa sin schna mansleight vo eva us mih gate, si sin usht hat va fina! ha
Ag, shick mich ebbis an panddsmucker@juno.com un ich shripe dich tsick bis du mich beddulsht fa mol shtill sei.
ReplyDeleteDe Arlene helft mich aw. Geshta hop ich see ge-called un hap see kfrokt fa please mich sowa us ich tsell's macha bis my boova uch voksa. Dear me. See sin ebbis shunsht.
Ah nin ca poop! (that's Dutch for "ok let's talk English." :-)
ReplyDeleteJapeth, your comment, #63, is the best of them all! I'm still laughing so hard I can hardly type this. At least you translated.
ReplyDeleteOh you guys are just jealous!!!LOL!! Very interesting conversation we've had!!
ReplyDeleteLets guess who "other than dutch" is?!!
ReplyDeleteI bet its Pauline..or someone like her!!LOL!!
Dorcas and Arlene,
ReplyDeleteIch schpeigh ve ich hop tva nie friends gmughed! Des vou all goot! Danke fa da fun un mich magha lagha. Ich glop us dei sint stimliegh "sparkeigh" vipslite! Sell is REGHT goot! Haldet ushed all sparky si! :)
Ag
Ya, des wah fon. Ich hop glached un glached un sel iss vee gut medicine. Donke shay.
ReplyDeleteYa mich au!! Des wa ust so funn!!
ReplyDeleteI have to make one more comment just so this post reaches 70! Enjoyed the ride. Especially the sights since the language was something else.
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