CAMP LOTSAWORDS - CAMP DIRECTOR, anniegetyourgun - AUGUST 13 - AUGUST 17.
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CAMP LOTSAWORDS - THEME: Political Polyglot!
CAMP LOTSAWORDS - CAMP DIRECTOR, anniegetyourgun - AUGUST 13 - AUGUST 17.
Camp Meals for Monday: All meals at the LATIN MESS HALL - each cabin takes turns having clean up duty.
Breakfast (07:00): French toast, bacon, orange juice, milk, cold cereal
Lunch (12:00): Grilled cheese sandwiches, cream of tomato soup, fruit salad, milk - white & chocolate.
Dinner (18:00): Spaghetti with meatballs, garlic toast, salad, milk.
Other times of note: Up at 06:30, lights out at 21:00.
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We will actually be dealing with the "international flavor" of our language this week. So many foreign words have entered our language and they are so useful!
During the week I will introduce many foreign words that have become part of our lexicon. We will delve into their root, history, and usage.
There are not grades at camp - just fun! Feel free to use the words liberally (but not as a liberal). Try to stick to commentary on news of the day.
And, of course, our camping days will include hikes, swimming, songs, quiet time, great camp food, skits, boating, arts & crafts, and many other activities common to camp.
Boys in cabin on east side of creek. Girls on west side. Report to your counselor after breakfast this morning for your cabin assignment!
Boys cabins: Verb, Noun, Adjective, Conjunction
Girls cabins: Adverb, Preposition, Pronoun
Other locations of note:
Phrase Playfield - games & other outdoor activities
Sentence Stables - horses, of course!
Split Infinitive Infirmary - To see Nurse Nancy with medical emergencies
Interjection Inn - camp headquarters - home to camp director
Language Lodge - Where most indoor activities take place
Subject Swimming Hole - Open 13:00 - 18:00 daily
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TODAY WE TRAVEL TO GERMANY
There are just so many wonderful German words, I hardly know where to start. Did you know that German nouns are usually capitalized? Oh well, here are just a few for today's fun:
feinschmecker: This is a gourmand (whoa, that's a French word! We'll do those on Wednesday)
gestalt: : a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts.
angst: A feeling of anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression.
wunderkind: A child prodigy.
zeitgeist: The spirit of the time; the taste and outlook characteristic of a period or generation.
schadenfreude: Pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.
verboten: Forbidden; prohibited.
1?
Dang. You beat me.
Report to the mess hall for grub!
First in line for breakfast!
Do we get to spell out words using popsicle sticks, and then spread glue, glitter and navy beans to them?
Last week at Vacation Bible School we covered our entire church bus with macaroni and silver paint.
What a beautiful day! Smell that fresh air!
I'd love to participate, but I can't speak german.
I'm sure the arts & crafts counselor has some very fun stuff going today! I saw her carrying boxes of beads, string, leather strips.....
The little story I posted in here gave me a real sense of schadenfreude, but to post it in an irrelevant thread would be verboten.
LOL! You silly one. Oh wait, that's the other kid.....
My nextdoor neighbor, a true Feinschmecker, really enjoys fresh mice neck.
Just being,
Volkswagon:A rabbit made in Germany.
Volkswagon Box:This version, called the Bus ,usually has flowers and graffiti , [victory signs] painted on them.
"Did you know that German nouns are usually capitalized? "
None that were listed were capitalized.
That is Verboten.
.... We'll watch your back.
I was wondering if anyone would notice!
I am ducking for the inevitable cheap shot...
oh i love french toast! how fun!
too bad there are no grades this week, i minored in German.... :)
i am SCREAMING with laughter!
Oh, then you know that there is only one word in German for fear and anxiety: Angst.
The use of "angst" in the English language, however, seems to be restricted to its psychological meaning. This lets me assume, that «angst» first came to English with Freud around 1910.
Does that make the post erzatz?
Miss Annie, i had some Angst about coming to sleepaway camp, but i am so happy to be here. I fully expect to experience Schadenfreude when some of the Wunderkind boys are slapped flat for attempting to do the Verboten. How FUN!
That's ersatz - but GOOD ON YOU for introducing another German word today! And we haven't even gotten through breakfast yet!
Senator Diane Feinschmecker of California has actually criticized a fellow democrat, one Gary Condit. (As for the derivation, fein means, well, "fine" and schmecker means "smeller" so a gourmand is one who is a good smeller and thus enjoys great quantities of food; hence, a gourmand.) A gourmand should not be confused with a gourmet, which always refers to Steve Lawrence's wife.
RO mess hall FL!
Ich bin nicht ein Berliner, ist das nicht gantze klar? (Meine Duetche Lehrer wahr Switzeduecth...and that's my only excuse!)
Schadenfreude refers to the large oak tree under which Sigmund Freud used to take respite from the hot Viennese sun. His unwillingness to accept the gestalt theory of personality was due to the fact that, at the time, Freud was too jung to understand it.
Oh dear....I'm in trouble. I'll be on more solid ground when we do Spanish words on Friday. I don't do German....except to the extent their words have made it into our language!
Boys cabins: Verb, Noun, Adjective, Conjunction
Girls cabins: Adverb, Preposition, Pronoun
Girls have all the fun!
Der Dems, in deepest angst over President Bush,
Their broken Clintonian gestalt so much mush,
Their zeitgeist is lacking,
Amidst so much Condit flaking,
Its the Reps's schadenfreude that is the rush!
I think that 4 of the 7 is good if it is not verbotten to use more than one at a time. This being my 1st time at Teacher Annie's camp, I don't necessarially know all of the rules. I don't want to be any kind of wunderkind because that puts you in the back of the line. All of the feinschmecker get the good stuff and the back-of-the-liners get whats left!
SES
Volkswagen has only one "o" (and one "e"), danke.
This thread has possibilities, but the current participants have too much angst about their identities to figure out that having a bunch of bi chicks wandering into their favorite watering hole could be lots of fun...
oooh goody, spanish words on friday? i was a Spanish/Poli.Sci. double major. i like your camp, miss annie!
Au contraire, I'm the one in trouble with all my mis-spellings! :^(
I'll be back when languages better mastered by myself are in play!
No worries, mate - all the campers at Lotsawords are WUNDERKINDS!
My grandmother, who was Danish but spoke German, said to my grandfather, "Das ist swine hundt." I think literally traslated it means, "You are a pig dog."
I'm here, Teacher Annie! How are we doing so far?
March simply said: is it not perfectly clear that he/she is not a DONUT, and that his/her only excuse was that his German teacher was from Switzerland. Teacher's pet duties include translation...
Thank you and LOL!
xs....I think you must be overeducated! Seriously, you'll be a BIG help this week around camp!
did i do ok?
Whoa!!! impressive display, that, SES!
Hmmm, Cook won't allow donuts at camp Lotsawords. You may be in trouble, March.
My dog resembles that remark now that he is in retirement from show ring....and getting fat!
CAMP LOTSAWORDS CAMPERS ARE ALL SO SMART!
Miss Annie, I will be feeling a great deal of angst if I find out that skinny dipping is verboten.
Hhhmmmm...prepare for angst. Camper parents would be VERY unhappy with me if such antics occur at Lotsawords!
Mr. OPH, there might be scary stories told by the campfire later. Will you be my big strong boy if I get scared? ;-)
those are the only languages i know, so tues, weds and thurs i will be out of luck!
On the "mark". I am not a donut :^) and yes, my German professor was Swiss. (BTW, March is he NOT she). Te agradezco por la asistencia...
Ok, ok. Breakfast was excellent!
a Feinschmecker is a gourmet who eats too much!
Yeah, I'll get angst, too (yesterday's nekkid driveway sunbathing was a treat i don't allow myself often enough anymore...)
Stories at campfire time will be fun tonight. I just wish that ralph were around for it. He is such a wonderful storyteller - his colorful and intense commentary makes a story/scene come alive. That ralph....he always was bigger than life, eh?
well one never wants to assume gender. we have had problems in WFTD class with mistaken gender before... ask Sea to explain that! nice to meet ya, March!
Big 10-4
Darlin', just lemme wrap my arms around you and you'll be safe from all the other critters and haunts in the woods. But me, however...
If ya gots skinny to dip, ist nicht verboten. But my skinny ist Schadenfreude. Wirklich!
"Camper parents would be VERY unhappy with me if such antics occur at Lotsawords!"
I thought campers' parents were verboten!
No one has posted the song, Danke Schoen, Darling, Danke Schoen. Thank you for all the join and pain . . ."
We guys are more than OK with a little gender confusion among the ladies. Makes things, uh, interesting...
Where is Cyber, Slip? i thought he had some special things for camp, or is that later in the week?
I sometimes get email from him. He is a great story teller. Otter isn't so bad at it either.
"That ralph....he always was bigger than life, eh?"
Well, I think Bella and Sea might know the answer to that!
Your literal translation is correct but, in reality, she meant something far worse than that!
Are the docks in the picture on the east or west side? And as far as "en nuditas veritas" is concerned, if the lake is big enough, who'd notice - now to find some frolicsome fraulein... any volunteers?
Fraulein Annie, ist rauchen hier verboten?
Haben Sie doch ein sehr schon Macintosh Apfel von British Columbia! Ein schon Apfel fur die schonste Lehrer!!
Hey, Fro, do you want to have a little Schadenfreude when things start blowing up in here?
ok, March, how do you say SHOW OFF in deutsch?
The Wunderkind Cyber will be in later. It's Monday morning meetings for him. There's always a Monday morning angst!
Okay - time for cabin NOUN to start bussing tables in the mess hall. Everyone get ready to meet out at the flag circle for instructions and "elective" class sign-ups!
...hurting myself laughing...
Deutsch is ein leichte Sprache.
(German is an easy language.)
Haus ist house.
Maus ist mouse.
And Hochgeschwindekeit ist speed limit.
glad to see boys are cleaning up...
Es tut mir leid, aber das Ich weiss nicht...
And dropping dishes - OYE - it's a major Katzenjammer!
guess there are none of those double S thingies on U.S. computers, huh? :) Auch Ich weiss nicht. Der Aus-Shauen? Kann ich things upmachen?
Let's Schadenfreude all over the damn place!
I will be feeling a great deal of angst if I find out that skinny dipping is verboten.
While it may be verboten, der skinnydippen reducen der angst of der schwimmin.
Der freehangin of der rudder maken it much simpler to controlen der schteerin.
At leasten fer der malen of der species.
< ". . .she meant something far worse than that!"
I figured as much. I think I left out the "eine" after the "Das ist."
It's only showing off if it's done right. Otherwise, it's only worthy of derisive laughter. And I'm not sure I got it right.
Mit out der Kapitan und Mama, you expected what???
A DAY AT CAMP QWERTY-SHI-GOH-WAH
The camp director goes over this week's words with camp counselors.
Students line up for finger nail inspection before breakfast. Some of them who failed to wash their hair are in for a surprise lice inspection.
RikaStrom helps the Teen Explorers look for otterpond's missing Scrabble Brand Crossword Game tile.
I have not my PC-8 character code cheat-sheet, else the "est-zet" would have been present...
Btw, i don't think miss annie has "your" kind of movies in mind for movie night at camp....
LOL! I heard the Germanic language as a child. Hey, it's coming back in this thread!
and where's the umlaut?
Classes to sign up for at Camp Lotsawords:
Leatherwork
Whittling
Trailriding
Orienting
Targetshoot
Archery
First aid certification
Relays and field games
Board wordgames - scrabble, boggle, upwords, etc.
Drama
Poetry and creative writing
Camp cooking
Water polo
silly, are you camp photographer? i thought ralph had the photo concession tied up.
RO the campground LMAO.
Hey, OWK, nice to see you in here!
Miss Annie, I know it's not current, but I thought Clinton displayed what a putz of a feinschmecker he was (and is) by selecteing fat ol' Monica (despite her great hair). He showed much better taste by having Elinor Mondale chase him around...the joint. (Almost ended the sentence with a preposition again)
Das ist = that is.
Du bist = you are (familiar form--much more insulting).
Alzo, "Du bist Schweinhunt" = You are a no good, dirty rotten, sonofabitch!
Leatherwork
hmmmmm....let me guess...OPH will be the first to sign up for this one...
i thought ralph had the photo concession tied up.
Nah, she escaped!
There are so many classes, Teacher Annie!
I'll pick three: Targetshooting, Waterpolo (Marco, anyone?) and whittling!
"putz" is actually Yiddish - we'll do a few of those kinds of words tomorrow when we discuss WORDS THAT NO LONGER SEEM FOREIGN due to their common usage in English - a potpourri (Fr.) of words from around the world!
"(Almost ended the sentence with a preposition again)"
Don't you just hate that, Argh? It is verboten to have a dangling participle.
Classes to sign up for at Camp Lotsawords...
Water polo
Is this coed water polo? I'm still looking for a frolicsome fraulein to sneak off with this evening...
You didn't! :-)
If putz is no longer foreign why did the jewish community in New York get upset when Sen. D'Amato called UpChuck Schumer a putzhead during the 1998 Senate race?
Ich muss mir zu meine arbeite bald gehen. Nach abend!
"Du bist Schweinhunt"
I'll bet this is what was said. My childhood memory could be off. It was usually when Grams was angry.
Isn't this great fun?!!??
One thing we WON'T focus on in words is LATIN - since SO many of our words have that root. Besides, it's not a modern language, which we are focusing on this week.
cause it means something naughty!
LOL. You are bad, xs!
Oh dear...it's not even 9:00 Pac time and we're already needing a new thread. I'd better get that ready for use.....
XS, do you mean it's verboten?
Well, that's because they know what it means. I ain't going there....no matter how much you bait me!
shuss!
Oy ve!!
Der first ting you do ven rowing out of range of der Hatfields and der McCoys (so you don't get schadenfruede) is to put verboten der vater. If you don't do this fast enough, you get a wunderkind of angst in der fanny and end up feeling like some kind of feinshmecker for not being der gestaltering plans earlier. Of course, your erstwhile hosts may ask "why zeitgeist running away?", but at least you are still alive.
My Umlaut lies over devotion
My Umlaut lies over DC
My Umlaut lice soda devotion
Oh, brickbat my Umlaut to meee
This is great Campground fun, Teacher Annie.
Are we playing Scrabble this evening in German? It appears 2Fro and March are the Schadenfreudes of this language!
German equivalent of Putz is Schmuck.
Personally, I'd rather be schmucked than putzed.
or better still, perhaps, "bis abend'...
a verboten anatomical reference, but i am betting you know this....
We're combining our efforts at photography.
Campers xsmommy and Slip18 enjoy the cool indoors at a craft table. This morning's project: Find non-German equivalents of schadenfreude and attempt to illustrate them, Pictionary-style, with their hands Crazy-glued to the table.
It is verboten to have a dangling participle
Well, I'm OK then as far as I remember.
that is VERY cute~!
(whew!)
hey argh, we went to a different activity in a different cabin, maybe you wanna join the others?
After coming home from the wonderbar at the wrong 5 o'clock, I attempted to kiss my wife on her very feinschmecker.
Germans are not a happy race. I have seen them in Florida many times while dining. They never laugh. Worked with a woman who went to Dresden this summer. They had old relatives there but they still hated it.
I believe they're trying to eliminate the "ß" from the spelling in most cases. Y'know, that Rechtschreibreform thingy...
Anyone know how that's going over there?
Although most people feel it should be verboten to say so publicly, one gets a certain feeling of schadenfreude watching the angst of that rapidly aging wunderkind, The Pride of Modesto. Even in our jaded zeitgeist, the most finicky feinschmecker of political scandals has to be amazed by the gestalt he has created.
Someone pass the insect repellant.
"Finally!" These campers are first in the lunchroom for breakfast. They've only been waiting an hour.
Silly (in the white T-shirt) contemplates some after-breakfast mischief by angramming the words "Adventure Center". By lunchtime the wall will read, "Nude Crater Event".
oh really? i always liked that double S thingie. how didja do that?
Did I come to one of those cheap camps where they don't teach rodeo skills? You know, lassoing and that sort of thing?
And on the movie thing, that's OK - I've got my own collection (so I have to leave the "video" store with my films and goodies hidden in a brown paper bag...)
My Umlaut lies over devotion
A Pogo fan I see...
You got it, "Ten Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Years"...
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