The Logbook Pt. 2

Pros and Cons of Spanish and German

Everyone on the Octopod knows at least one Spanish word and one German word cos Peso and Pinto's first language was Spanish and Dashi is fluent in German.

Peso first started learning English when he started Medical training in high school. He started speaking it at home sometimes as well and Pinto soon picked a lot of it up cos he thought whatever his big brother did was so cool.

Dashi's grandmother on her father's side had immigrated from Germany, and spoke German a lot, but her kids didn't speak German a lot, so Dashi ended up learning the majority of her German from her grandmother, and around the time Koshi was born, her great-aunt from Germany who couldn't speak English came, and was often the one who babysat
for the next 2 little "angels" that came around, and the girls learned German from her even before they knew English.

Dashi and Peso have spent nights teaching each other all the terms of endearment in German and Spanish. Now Dashi calls Pinto "schnucki" and Peso calls Dashi's little sisters "cachorrita."

Then again, knowing different names for people in German doesn't always end well, (Saumensch, Saukerl, Arschloch, Culo, Pendejo/a, Cabron, etc.) At this point, no one else on the Octopod knows what these words mean, but they know it's nothing good.

Peso has taught the Captain every species name and the -ito (little) suffix in Spanish, so now he calls Kwazii gatito (kitten), Tweak conejita, (little bunny), etc. They hate it and blush and complain that they aren't "little" anymore, but they secretly love having the Captain dote on them cos the Captain is too sweet.

The baby Vegimals know some words of German and Spanish, and can piece together cute, innocent little sentences. This ended up being a little awkward when Pinto taught the cuties how to say "Me gusta" (I like) and then they said to him "Me gusta tu" (I like you). AWWWWWW! right? Hehehe. When you say "Me gusta (a person) in Spanish, it means you LIKE like them, so Pinto blushed bright red and corrected them to say "Me cae bien tu." The less awkward "I like you."

Jane and Pinto try to teach each other their languages (non cuss words of course), and Jane nearly died at the number of weird Spanish rules while Pinto died when he realized how long German words were. Science in Spanish is "ciencias" while "science" in German is "wissenschaften".

At this point, both of them are so familiar with each other's language, that this goes down aloost everyday.

Pinto: "Pendeja, puedo tener un beso?"

Jane: "Die klappe halten, saukerl."