| Comment | "pre-digested" foods cropped up in my "Nachhilfeschüler's" textbook. "pre-digested" is a new vocabularly, correctly translated as "vorverdaut," even though I would have spelt it "predigested." They've been provided a summary of James Vance Marshall's novel "Walkabout." Brother and sister are American children (from Charleston, SC), who survived a plane crash and are stranded in the Australian Outback.
I could hardly contain my mirth about "pre-digested" food. It gets some gurgle hits, most of which are sarcastic/ironic in nature. Several use the term to lead into religious beliefs (both Christian and Muslim sites)...Have I lived in Germany too long to have missed out ever hearing this word in any type of context?? Supposedly practically all foods we eat are "pre-digested/predigested," because they're processed.
Unit 1 Australia
www2.klett.de/sixcms/media.php/8/GL5_Unit1.pdf
been fed pre-digested foods, provided with continuous push-button ... (from: Walkabout by James Vance Marshall; adapted and abridged). 75. 80. 85.
The desert sun burned down on them.
The three children stood looking at each
other in the middle of the Australian desert.
Motionless as rocks they stared, and stared,
and stared. Between them the distance was
less than the length of an arm, but more
than 100,000 years. Brother and sister had
been fed pre-digested foods, provided with
continuous push-button entertainment. |
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