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Re: [romanceconlang] [germaniconlang] Re: hesitant conlanger



Hi!

Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@hidden.email> writes:
...
> > > Piece of cake (how do you say that in German BTW? In Dutch we say
> > "Een eitje"),
> >
> > "Kinderspiel".  What does eitje mean?  Little egg?
>
> Yes. BTW, we have the word "kinderspel" too. Sounds a bit old-fashioned,
> though. "Eitje" OTOH is rather colloquial, definitely not the kind of word a
> professor would use during his inaugurative speech.

Haha, I totally misunderstood the question...

I translated 'candies' instead.

**Henrik