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or eighties? with a commercial fashion to genderize anything in the child departement
i was appauled, what? didn't saw that one coming
but the not very genderspecific upbringing in the sixties was more "upperclassish" i assume
leading to the unisex seventies, in some places anyway

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I find myself amusing, that is my whole way of being amuses me, do you also find yourself amusing?

Nope. I think in my case the word would not be "amusing" but "curious".

What was your favorite toy in preschool age?

Barbie dolls, the mermaid one specifically.
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I don’t have a memory, but from photograph albums it appears to have been a stuffed toy Eeyore (donkey in Winnie the Pooh)
my grandmother made for me before I was born.
(I’ve been told I rarely moved and never kicked in the womb, so the nicknamed me after the character)

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A teddy bear that was bigger than me but stuffed with styrofoam so it was light enough for me to carry.
Also, building bricks.

If you had to choose one word to describe yourself, what word would it be?

That’s got me totally stumped.
Nope, sorry, can’t manage that much self-concision.

Edit (half a cup of tea later): Elaborate.
Could manage it after all!

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outlier.

what was your first word that you could read in print? [mine was "just"- i still remember what it felt like to see that word and see just a mysterious collection of close-order symbols]

I don't remember but Polish has much simpler (more regular) spelling than English so it could be very early.

Do you speak any foreign languages? What is the most obscure language you know at least a few words?

'fraid i'm a typical monolingual amuuuurican [insert hick emoji here] but since my late mother was japanese, i somehow managed to learn a little bit, mostly the bad words directed at me.

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That's good. So you can use those cuss words yourself and... no American would be offended! Lol!

Can hablo en Espanol uno poquito.

And remember SOME French from gradeschool. I picked up a Catalan dictionary once, and I could see for myself that Catalan ( the language of the Barcelona area in the northeastern slice of Spain) is more like French than like Spanish.

I used to collect words from weird exotic languages when I was a kid. The only thing that I remember is "zhing",or"king", in Chinese. It means 'royal court', and by extension 'capital city'. Hense city names like Beijing (Peking), Nanking, and Chungking. Respectively "northern court", "southern court", and "central court/capital". Its oddly similar to the English word for "male monarch" which is also "king".

Do you make up "pseudo cuss words" to use in polite company?

i got me quite a collection of pseusopswears

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I don't. I used to not swear out of principle... now i do definitely and i don't do it with others around

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Yes. They are impossible to translate to English. Usually they contain some syllabes from an original cuss word remixed to sound similar to something completely unrelated.

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Preschool Toy: My favourite toys were albums (Elton, Simon & Garfunkel).

I also loved my pink tambourine and I played with this guy until his legs fell off:



One word to describe me: daydreamer

Cuss words I make up: Ruggggg, Rufffff, Flubbb

Magz: Yes, it was the early 1970s when I was lifted by my ponytail for playing with a blue train on the first day of school. We were allowed to use the play toys and I went to the train because my brother had the same one at home. Apparently I was only supposed to go to the "House Centre" to play house with the girls and I wasn't allowed to touch the train because it was blue, so it was for boys.

Do you carry an umbrella when it rains, or just use a hood / get wet?

I carry an umbrella and get wet.
In my head it’s a weapon in case I get assaulted, which obviously wouldn’t work if I opened it... so I don’t!

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