While we were living in the United States, my wife worked as an assistant teacher at a primary school. She had to help out with lessons, sing and dance with the children, and do all sorts of other activities that would make me want to uppercut the nearest kid I could find.
During one particularly hectic week at school, my wife was asked to help tidy up the playroom for an upcoming visit from the school board. This included putting toys away and rearranging furniture items, like tables, stools, desks and — apparently — bean bag chairs. I didn’t quite understand the way she articulated this last item, so I asked her to repeat it:
THE WIFE: “I said, ‘We even had to move the sit-sacks,’ ”
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Oh God, My Wife Is German. 
I always wondered why you call it beanbags, as that is just plain wrong. There are no beans nor a bag in a beanbag. In Dutch it is called a zitzak, which, like in German makes total sense. So this could have been my story had it come up in my conversation with the hubby! 1-0 for Denglish ;-)
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I think the comments are as good as the story. I like how my students, when speaking German, always add ge- to the front of words to indicate past tense. “I ge-taped it on my locker and now its verloren.” “I ge-pressed the button and nothing happened.”
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THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I DO.
Oh that is so perfect. But hey, what else can we do? We haven’t learned the real past tense yet! :)
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