Kirsten, do you think we are a little strange?! Hahaha...
Ha ha ha!!! We probably are! I remember when I had my mother and her fiancé here for breakfast, Lily jumped onto the table and I told her "Get down!" LOL You should have seen their faces, because they don't speak English and they probably thought I've lost my mind now. But I swear it's a fact that Lily is much more reacting to a "get down" than to the German equivalent, "runter da." That sounds too rude, I guess.

sirrahbed, the German version of "meow" is "miau", pronounciation is more or less the same. That's so funny your boy has asked you that, but I heard that for example birds of the same breed are "speaking" different dialects when living in different areas, so why not cats?
Where in Germany did you live btw? Just curious.


RedHedd, you're right, I heard the same about the eee-sound. This is one of the reasons why pets love baby talk, and why there should be an eee-sound in their name. The English language has a lot of these sounds also.

And like Randy_K has said, there is some sharpness in the German language, also, many words are longer.

"Treat" for example can also be translated as "Leckerli" or "Belohnung", and "kitty" as "Kätzchen".

Kirsten