Stella likes to take a bath when she has cramps during her period, so maybe Amy was thinking of that... no idea why she came up with that phrase just at that point, though; I don't think Aunt Flo is in at the moment.
Very interesting -- I didn't know that! I know enough German for that, so I read through the sentence and puzzled over it a bit before looking at the translation.
Interesting! I know in English and French the term is based on the month-long cycle (menstruation/règles) -- is Tage a nickname, like period, or more "scientific", like menstruation?
/well that might be an icky question -- good thing we're all adults :P
is Tage a nickname, like period, or more "scientific", like menstruation?
I'd say it's pretty colloquial.
The more formal term is probably "Regel" (literally, "rule"); you might also hear "Ich habe meine Regel".
"Regelblutung" ("rule bleeding", i.e. "menstrual bleeding"), I'm fairly certain, is a "scientific" term (i.e. appropriate to that sort of register).
/well that might be an icky question
Possibly. I seem to have an unusually high tolerance for that sort of thing, so things which some people label TMI I merely find interesting to read about; that makes it hard for me to decide where other people tend to get uneasy.
I also like talking about pregnancy and childbirth when women are discussing that kind of subject, and find it interesting; apparently, that's also a range of topics most men find somewhere between uninteresting and icky.
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Stella likes to take a bath when she has cramps during her period, so maybe Amy was thinking of that... no idea why she came up with that phrase just at that point, though; I don't think Aunt Flo is in at the moment.
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Also, so "Tage" (~="days"?) is colloquial for period in German? Interesting.
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Specifically "meine Tage" ("my days"), but yes. (Or other possessive forms e.g. "her days", "your days".)
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/well that might be an icky question -- good thing we're all adults :P
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I'd say it's pretty colloquial.
The more formal term is probably "Regel" (literally, "rule"); you might also hear "Ich habe meine Regel".
"Regelblutung" ("rule bleeding", i.e. "menstrual bleeding"), I'm fairly certain, is a "scientific" term (i.e. appropriate to that sort of register).
/well that might be an icky question
Possibly. I seem to have an unusually high tolerance for that sort of thing, so things which some people label TMI I merely find interesting to read about; that makes it hard for me to decide where other people tend to get uneasy.
I also like talking about pregnancy and childbirth when women are discussing that kind of subject, and find it interesting; apparently, that's also a range of topics most men find somewhere between uninteresting and icky.
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The scientific term in German would be Menstruation
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If you let her read your entries when she is older, she'll probably be so embarrassed she said that...
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