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Lost in translation
Jetzt hat ihn gerade ein Hund gebissen.
Now a god has just beat him.
(boy, year 3, 2006)
Gestern stach mich eine Biene.
Yesterday pig me a biene.
(girl, year 4, 2006)
Fiona sucht ihre Kamera, aber sie kann sie nicht finden.
Fiona looks at her camera, but she can't find it.
(boy, year 2, 2006)
Er wollte seinen Abfall loswerden, aber er wird damit nicht durchkommen.
He would take his shit away, but this plan will not go round.
(boy, year 6, 2006)
Du siehst gut aus. Ich mag deine Augen und deinen Mund.
You are great. I love your egg and your mouth.
(boy, year 2, 2006)
Gemüse bewahrt man am besten im Kühlschrank auf.
You should keep your legs in the fridge.
(boy, year 5, 2005)
Some quite remarkable statements ...
[Mind over Muscle:] "Men work with their body and not with their brains like women do. Women firstly think about an issue and act afterwards."
(girl, year 6, 2006)
[On girls and computer games:] "Girls like horses more than computers. There is no fun for girls to shoot someone down."
(boy, year 4, 2006)
[On girls and computer games:] "In the stone age the boys got the food but the girls were at home and looked for the children."
(boy, year 4, 2006)
[On reading books:] "I mostly like books in which many people are killed. [...] I don't like school books."
(boy, year 4, 2006)
[On girls and computer games:] "[The girls in computer games] are very thin and so beautiful as no girl can be in reality. It's a little bit unfair because we can't be like these "game girls" and so we think the boys don't like us. But what can we do? Nothing... :D"
(girl, year 4, 2007)
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