Amyisms: yeah

Amy seems to have decided to use "Yeah" for affirmative replies.

I wonder whether she picked this up from a film, or where it comes from. The phonetic similarity to German "Ja" presumably plays a role.

I mean, sometimes "Yeah" is appropriate in colloquial English, but it carries a certain stylistic connotation, which I don't think she intends at all.

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Unrelatedly, the other day, while talking about rhyming words, I mentioned "need", and she asked me what that meant. I told her, and she said, "No, that's 'meed'." Which is how she always pronounces it. So apparently that's what she thought it was supposed to be? Not sure whether she believed me when I said that no, it's really "need". Ah well.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I just got back from watching Harry Potter: I watched parts 1 and 2 back-to-back in a double feature, since I hadn't watched part 1 previously.

Part 2 was in 3D, which I would have preferred to avoid, but in Hamburg, there's not much choice if you want to watch films in the original language. It went surprisingly well for me, though, and I'm glad the director made restrained use of it.

I laughed; I cried; and I thought Hermione looked rather good in Bellatrix's dress.

And I was amused that they put the very ending of the book (19 years later) into the film, too.