Amy's German, or: Who needs "ge-", anyway?

[pne]

Amy this morning: "Mami hat an mein Fuß sitzt".

Two noteworthy things about that are both in the word "sitzt": firstly, she seems to have generalised the -t morpheme for the past participle (though in this particular case, it should have been "gesessen", not "gesitzt" - I suppose it's a "strong" verb), and secondly, she fairly consistently omits the "ge-" morpheme of German past participles — just as it's done in, say, Low German, or English, for that matter.

I always find it interesting when Amy does things the way some other natlang does it; somehow that makes it seem more natural (in an "I can see where that development might have come from" way).

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For me, birth was the easy part. It was the first nine months of parenthood that are keeping us from trying it again. My husband, Eric, and I both suffered exhaustion (as is typical, I know) and had lots of physical symptoms come up. We're still working through his. And mine, too, I suppose. But I won't bore you with the details here. We've pretty much resigned ourselves to having just one. I wish you the best of luck with your adoption.

I'm so sorry to hear that Stella had such a difficult birth experience. Mine was paradigm-shifting, to dredge up a moldy old description. I wish every woman (and man for that matter, but that's more complicated) could have the kind of birth experience I had with Maggie. Maybe I'll make more of a point to journal about it than I have so far.

I see that livredor is our only mutual friend, so yes it must be her. That's the mystery of the friendsfriends page, you're never sure until you check the user info who the common link is.