My mom used to say those kinds of things to us too, but in Dutch (she grew up Mennonite). It’s funny how those phrases have stuck with me since then. One of the funniest phrases I remember was “Brott makh dikh dot” [sic] which means “bread makes you dead.” I never knew what that was supposed to mean.
I don’t know what that means either except that it’s interesting that my wife has been having all kinds of stomach problems lately and it’s apparently all related to gluten-and wheat is a primary source of gluten! Maybe that’s what they meant.
I don’t want to get into a debate of speaking in tongues on this thread. I will only say that Pentecostals indeed do interpret the speaking in tongues of others. It is called the “gift of interpretation” and follows when someone delivers a “message in tongues” to a congregation. Pentecostals know the difference between someone simply praying in an unknown language and someone intending to give a message of instruction or encouragement to a congregation in an unknown language. For the latter, we expect an interpretation to follow, either from that person or from someone else.
I think you mean Pennsylvania Dutch, which is a dialect of German. On my mom’s side of the family her grandfather and father both spoke Pennsylvania Dutch, but it was never passed on to my mom or her brother – and this was a hundred-some-years after the family had emigrated to the U.S.
I always wondered about that, because yes we knew it definitely was a dialect of German, but my mom always called it dutch and that’s what they grew up calling it, but we know it didn’t sound anything like actual dutch. She didn’t grow up in Pennsylvania, though, she grew up in Kansas. I don’t know the language myself except for the phrases she used with us, “Hott die Hanah,” “Hipsch dikh schtille,” “Shetdikh charah” [sic] which translate to “behave yourself, sit still, shut your mouth.”