On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Sonja van Baardwijk wrote:
> Julia Thompson wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
> >
> >
> >>"Pooter" must not have the same implications in Europe as it does here . . .
> >>
> >
> >I usually see it spelled "'puter".
> >
> >
> Yes but pooter is closer to the phonetic capabillities of Tom. The way
> Tom says 'poo-wter'. Pjuter is simply beyond him. Leaves the question
> what the implication is when it is spelled that way for non Euros?
One who is passing gas.
> >We say it a lot here. :) We also write "sketti" on the shopping list > >part of the whiteboard in the pantry when we are running low on pasta. > > One wonders who is teaching who. We do that here too. We have to be a > bit more carefull though, because at times we use the childidles toward > people who don't know us. By now we know something in our phrasing is > wrong when we get that slightly confused pitified look.
Most of our friends understand. We're careful of how we talk to our parents. :)
The woman we hired to help me out during the day uses "poot" a lot. Then again, considering how often the babies do it, *some* term for it has to be used, and it's a nicer term somehow than "fart", especially if you're talking about a baby. "Was that just a poot, or was he filling his diaper?" (Either way, it's noisy....)
For all those not on that other list whose name starts with the letter "c", this morning's hot topic there seems to be kitty barf . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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