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18 Oct 2022, 6:37 pm

mohsart wrote:
In Pre School, we were told to draw a "flowery sausage", I drew a sausage with flowers growing out of it and couldn't understand why everybody else were drawing a sausage with flowers on its skin. Took me a couple of years to understand I was the one who did it wrong.
According to a Google search, "flowery sausage" is a cartoon dachshund with flowers painted on its skin. (Dachshunds are shaped similar to actual sausages.) Since most preschoolers, even NTs, lack the motor skills needed to draw a dog, the teacher changed it to a sausage drawing. While I don't know Swedish, in English, "flowery", when not used metaphorically, generally means "covered in flower prints" or "looking colorful like flowers". Or maybe "flowery sausage" is an element of the Swedish pop culture I'm not familiar with.

mohsart wrote:
I was in grade school in the mid Sixties in America when it was still required that we stand up and give the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. My nine year old self could grasp the "one nation, under God" part. But I couldnt figure out the "invisible" part. In what sense is the USA "invisible"?
In my case, I thought the word was "invincible", or undefeatable.



Last edited by magz on 21 Oct 2022, 2:47 pm, edited 2 times in total.: Removing political remarks - these should be restricted to PPR