tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305631555616445080.post7781909909241502656..comments2024-02-27T13:06:28.163+01:00Comments on love german books: Dirty Words, Picture Dictionaries and Wetlandskjdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16236984779717127341noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305631555616445080.post-13395950779963247852010-05-12T22:40:37.161+02:002010-05-12T22:40:37.161+02:00Oh Jan, I'm so embarrassed. After all these ye...Oh Jan, I'm so embarrassed. After all these years I still get der, die and das muddled up. But thanks for your input.<br /><br />Anyway, perhaps the shame element isn't explicit on the ear any more, but it's still very much there if you ask me.<br /><br />Those different approaches to the body between cultures are fascinating, I agree. Jessa and I had been talking about the modern kjdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16236984779717127341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305631555616445080.post-65378512153260473402010-05-08T00:19:16.252+02:002010-05-08T00:19:16.252+02:00Very interesting - especially for Germans.
Actuall...Very interesting - especially for Germans.<br />Actually, I think "die Scham" is very unusual in modern German, though Schamlippen and Schamhaar are widely used when not speaking slang (but the "shame" notion gets somewhat lost in these words, I think).<br />This really made me laugh: "There was a sense, and I think it was even stated out loud, in the US and UK that the Jan Grohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02699126613430711025noreply@blogger.com