While playing in the bath, a pretend conversation among the toys:
"I don't want to eat my eye." and then, "Why? It tastes so yummy. It tastes so yummy that you wouldn't believe it."
About 20 minutes after going to bed:
"Help! My blanket is so flabungit that I can't even fix it!"
Showing posts with label language acquisition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language acquisition. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Knock-Knocks and "What-ifs"
Last week in the car, about 10 minutes away from home, Alex said, "What if the car were so long that part of it was still in the driveway?"
He's doing a lot of "What ifs."
Like, "What if we shot up into space and the trees gave us spacesuits on our way past?"
He has discovered knock-knock jokes and tells the same ones incessantly.
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Banana.
Banana who?
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Banana.
Banana who?
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Orange.
Orange who?
Orange you glad I didn't say banana?
He's doing a lot of "What ifs."
Like, "What if we shot up into space and the trees gave us spacesuits on our way past?"
He has discovered knock-knock jokes and tells the same ones incessantly.
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Banana.
Banana who?
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Banana.
Banana who?
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Orange.
Orange who?
Orange you glad I didn't say banana?
Monday, August 25, 2008
Lose, lost, loozed
Today after a rousing game of hopscotch on the sidewalk Alex asked if he could bring his rock inside because, "I don't want it to get loozed." Took me a moment there to parse that one.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
The Overgeneralization Continues
No direct quote at the moment, but wanted to pop in to report that the overgeneralization of the past has progressed. Alex now uses the correct irregular forms of the past but adds the -ed. So instead of "seed" he now says, "sawed," for example. Another cognitive leap in the language acquisition journey!
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