50 years ago today, the Bundestag lowered the age of maturity from 22 to 18 yearsfor West Germany. Hundresds of thousands of young people born between 1953-56 suddenly weren't minors anymore, to the chagrin of the conserrvative press who saw droves of hapless young people stumbling into marriages wi...
There is that, too, although "Ferkel" is not remotely as derogative as "Schwein" is in German - as most diminutives, it is usedf with fondness and affection. And it has to be said, if you realize now what I've been calling you all those years , you are very late to the party. Any...
(Is that the correct usage? This is a new word for me.) Me too. Ferkel is a piglet. So maybe a bit less 'ferkel' here and more 'red herring'. ;) Actually, that's OK. In German, you call a kid (or grownup, as the case may be) a Ferkel when they behave in generally unclean, unhygienic or simply annoy...