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Mme El by Dagmar Coward Kuschke

 
Mme El by Dagmar Coward Kuschke Content : . Portrait of a countrywoman, extracts from a diary
. Toutoune
. Woman of character
. Cows
. Work on the land
. Mme El's men
. Life around 1900
. A new life
. Conversations with Mme El
. Remembrance Day
. Polite
. News items in the paper
. Mme El and I
. Conflict
. Language and love
. Don Juan in every-day life or free love
. The Quest of Love
. Marital fidelity or Broader Minded
. Progressive
. Conversation with Jo-Marie about her latest grandson
. Combing – penchena
. expressions and dictums
. Mme El and others
. Es atal la bido – Such is life…
. Birds, cats & dogs
. Miss
. Oxythyrea funesta – ‘deadly oxythyrea’
. Rachmaninou
french
english
german


Conversation with Jo-Marie about her latest grandson

 

Jo-Marie : ‘… le père est un musulman, il doit aller dans son pays avec le petit, il a bientôt un an, pour la – se tournant vers moi – circonscription’
moi : ‘circoncision’
Jo-Marie : ‘oui’
Mme El : ‘???’
moi : ‘enlever le prépuce’
Mme El : Quesaco?’
Jo-Marie : ‘couper le dessus du kiki’
et Mme El de frissonner …

Translation:
Jo-Marie: ‘…the father being a Muslim, they have to go to his
country with the little one, soon a year old, for the – turning to
me – circumscription’.
I: ‘circumcision’
Jo-Marie: ‘yes’
Mme El: ‘???’
I: ‘remove the prepuce’
Mme El: ‘what’s that?’
Jo-Marie: ‘cut off the top of the willy’
and Mme El shivering.

Later, I find a word ‘kiki’ in my dictionary, allegedly meaning ‘cou’, neck. I put this to Mme El who looks puzzled. She then tells me that really it means a ‘little dog’. Does it mean anything else; I ask and can tell from her more or less embarrassed smile that it certainly does.

 




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