Kinder

kindersurprise

This thread is kindergay

you are kinderfunny....lol

Kinder Schokolade
Kinder Ueberraschung
Kinder Happy Hippos


Ma favorites!

I just love those things...

Little Me *got to go buy some*

is that a kindergarten here

yeah that's what I thought the thread was about

kinder

Kind \Kind\, a. [Compar. Kinder; superl. Kindest.] [AS. cynde, gecynde, natural, innate, prop. an old p. p. from the root of E. kin. See Kin kindred.] 1. Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste. --Holland.

2. Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.

Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was his fault. --Goldsmith.

3. Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.

He is kind unto the unthankful and to evil. --Luke vi 35.

O cruel Death, to those you take more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind. --Waller.

A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. --Garrick.

4. Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act. ``Manners so kind, yet stately.'' --Tennyson.

5. Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness.

Syn: Benevolent; benign; beneficent; bounteous; gracious; propitious; generous; forbearing; indulgent; tender; humane; compassionate; good; lenient; clement; mild; gentle; bland; obliging; friendly; amicable. See Obliging.


Jak

I think the word "kindergarten" says more than enough.

To be honest, every time I've ever seen him post I've thought his name was pronounced with a hard "i", as in "kind". It never even occured to me that someone would think of it as the other definition. I think you're reading too much into it. There's a point where "correctness" starts to get a bit ridiculous.

Jak

Well, if I would have read it that way, I wouldn't have made this post. However, I (and many Dutch/German people with me, I think) automatically associate this with "Kinder" as in kindergarten. It took me some time to even realize what the name really meant.

The fact that other people here associate it with Kinder Surprise and such (German company making chocolate for kids, hence the name) shows, imo, that other people associate it with the wrong thing as well.