My 10 year old in some FF related trouble
POSTED BY: JustDavid
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 21:57
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My 10 year old daughter, Leita, is on spring break right now and while I'm at work she stays at the child care program at her school. Yesterday when I went to pick her up, the woman in charge pulls me aside to explain that Leita was in some trouble earlier. Apparently there were some older girls that were picking on her and she got angry and called one of them a "ta ma de." Now no one there (except Leita) knows what that means, but she did confess that it was cussing in another language. The woman in charge said she would just leave any punishment for this up to me. On the way home Leita asked if I was mad, I said no, then she asked if I was dissapointed in her, and I said no and as long as she understood that she shouldn't do that again then we'll just let the whole thing go. But behind my poker face I'm thinking "WOO HOO! My daughter got in trouble for cussin' in chinese! How cool is that?!"
Maybe in a few years I can let her in on how I really felt.
"Light it."
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Okay... I'm just so proud of you for keeping the "WOO HOO" contained....
I don't think I could have done it.
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I probably would have burst out laughing but good for you for being the dad! Look at it this way, she's now officially bi-lingual!
I wonder if I can teach my three year old neice to say "ta ma de?" 
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Great story JustDavid.
I have not had my children swear in Chinese yet, but they do say dong ma, bee jway, & mei mei. Kind of cool to hear them using Mandarin.
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Your daughter is the shiniest!
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Thank you, you put a much needed smile on my face today with that story 
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Originally posted by JustDavid:
she got angry and called one of them a "ta ma de."
I dunno. Even if no one else understands it, it's a "really bad" phrase for a 10 year old to say. Does she fully understands what it means?
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yes, very cool excpet she didn't really cuss anybody out...she said "Ta ma De (or) Duh" depending on your accent. but what she really said was.. " F*** me blind"
Tell her to say "Duh Ma" F*** you..or "do my" in engilsh pronounciation. next time she gets in a fight..ok.. Dong Ma?"
yes i know saying Dong ma is " you understand?"
and ta MA duh is f' ME blind keep in mind that the way you say it determines the actuall word. look for chineese translations on this site to learn about the 1,2,3,4 differnet ways to say one word..
Peace..
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Don't know where you got your translations from, but "Ta Ma de..." literally translates to Your/His/Her mama... but used in the same sense and generality as "F*ck" or "S*it"...
Kid 10 year old using that kind of language in China also stands around on the corner of the block smoking and beating each other up. If I catch my kid even thinking anything like that, we are going to go thru the 12 pack of Irish Spring before we are done.
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Originally posted by Tomtba2004:
yes, very cool excpet she didn't really cuss anybody out...she said "Ta ma De (or) Duh" depending on your accent. but what she really said was.. " F*** me blind"
Tell her to say "Duh Ma" F*** you..or "do my" in engilsh pronounciation. next time she gets in a fight..ok.. Dong Ma?"
yes i know saying Dong ma is " you understand?"
and ta MA duh is f' ME blind keep in mind that the way you say it determines the actuall word. look for chineese translations on this site to learn about the 1,2,3,4 differnet ways to say one word..
Peace..
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