the beautiful and talented alisa and myself recent took our four and half year old son, bennett, to germany for a week. we left the 21 month old toddler, garrett, home with grandpa.
germans don't understand the dis. it's a concept that's totally lost on them. like for example: "you've got rocks in your head" is met with blank stares. actually that's not entirely true. germans have precisely one dis which they use for all occasions. literally translated it's: "you have a bird." i guess "birdbrain" is a more accurate translation. needless to say, they don't use it all that often.