Puppetry today 1: ganz toll vs. voll geil

Today Friedel and Thusnelda had one of their dust-ups over appropriate language use.

It was about awesomeness. Friedel was describing a new toy of J's as voll geil (teenager slang, about the equivalent of "badass"), to which expression Thusnelda took exception as "inappropriate" and told J he should not use it, suggesting ganz toll ("really great") instead. Friedel kept chanting voll geil voll geil voll geil and trying to get Jamie to say it. He laughed but wouldn't, so Thusnelda feels she won that one. I suggested also bärenstark, the term used in Kung Fu Panda, which everyone agreed was an awesome word.

Update: later today J sought to provoke Thusnelda by pointing out that the little witch uses the phrase total geil in her rap song. This delighted Friedel, who started chanting voll geil total geil voll geil total geil. Thusnelda just sighed and shook her head.

Age 4.12.12