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"Opa to Oma, bye-bye"

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Vancouver, 2010.12.31

The Boy managed to squeeze all three of his grandparent's languages into one sentence today.

Wishing my father and step-mum farewell, he told them "Opa" (German) "to" (Japanese for 'and') "Oma" (German) "bye-bye" (English).

rand()m quote

Society is indeed a contract... [the state] is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

—Edmund Burke