This one is Alexx's fault

[kestrell]

So I was at the clinic this morning getting prescriptions tweaked and, while we were waiting around, Alexx kindly put away the handheld device upon which he was playing a game so that he could attempt to amuse me (in retrospect, this makes me sound very similar to the young children described in the story to which I link below).

Anyway, Alexx started to read to me from a poster on the wall, and the question came up of what does the word kaput mean?

Being the curious person I am and possessing an active Internet connection, this is what I found
http://domestica79.blogspot.com/2010/03/in-turkey-theyre-called-kaput.html

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Yes, and ... "kaput" means lost or dead in Yiddish (and it's migrated back to German)