Good call on bringing this back to the heart of the argument: that worn out gif.

Where does the corgi rank on the BS meter?

"A teacher is absolutely NOT under any circumstances to leave a classroom full of students alone." This is not true- at least in any unionized teacher contract I've seen.

Good old fashioned Duden: http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibun…

Mädel is still a diminutive and not a root.

I'm going to pretend you're my student and feel good about having a student post on a this website about what they learned in my class.

'boy' isn't a diminutive. If you were wanting to say 'small boy' or 'little boy' you could make it a diminutive by adding the -chen (or whichever diminutive marker) but no one really does. I guess you could think of the bavarian word for boy that is sometimes use 'Burli' or "Bürschle' where you see the '-li' or the…

adding '-chen' (or '-lein', '-li', '-erl' depending on dialect/region) is the diminutive form and makes it 'little'. All words in the diminutive become neuter and take 'das' as the def. article. It is similar to adding a '-y' to a word in English to make it cute/little Tom —> Tommy. The more interesting question then…

Totally thought it was Karen O. when I first heard the song.