Adalbert, Ines, Linda!
Thanks very much for your comments regarding this book.
Linda: "Pass ma' auf" still is a frequently used phrase here in Germany.
The Low German (Platt) version is: "Pass op"
Richard Glischinski
lmpauling schrieb:
"Letters of a
>German American Farmer: Jurnjakob Swehn Travels to America" ?A special joy that I received from the book was to find an expression
used
that I had heard as a kid and never knew the meaning of. My father
would
say, (with a twinkle in his eye) "Pass ma nauf." That's what it
sounded like
to me. Whenever I asked someone who spoke German what that could mean,
they
said they had never heard it. In the book is the expression, "Pass du
man
lieber auf" and it is translated "Pay attention!" My eyes lit up and
I was
thrilled to discover that this must be the expression my father had
used