Joden

[Annette Karmiloff-Smith]

sorry, no it didn't.  I should have explained. It is the first name
given to a newborn by parents who know nothing of its meanings and
thought they had invented a nice-sounding name.  When I realised the
Dutch meaning I wondered what meaning it might have in other
languages and thought what better source of info than the
psycholinguistics list.  Thanks to all who replied.  If there are
psychotherapists out there, should I tell the parents or not?
Annette

At 3:53 pm -0500 8/9/02, rsprouse wrote:
>OK, Annette,
>
>the whole list is now waiting to find out whether this word showed up
>in a corpus of child Dutch or child Spanish.
>
>Rex Sprouse
>
>-------------------
>>  The word "joden" has different  meanings in Spanish. It depends on
>the
>>  country or variety of Spanish.
>>
>>  In Spain it's equivalent to the word "fuck" in English, but in
>Argentina,
>>  Venezuela and Peru, for example, it's equivalent to the word
>"bother" or
>>  "tease" but with a very strong "charge".
>>
>>  Both meanings are argot.
>>
>>  Ximena Rios
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith
><a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk>
>>  To: <info-childes at mail.talkbank.org>
>>  Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 7:36 PM
>>  Subject: Joden
>>
>>
>>  > OK, I've been told what it means in Spanish.
>>  > Does the word have meaning in other languages?
>>  > thanks
>>  > annette
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>
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