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I am literally in love with the fact I get to see how my little cousins interact even with a language barrier. On my mom’s side, I have a 3 year old little cousin who only speaks French, and on my dad’s side I have a 2 year old cousin who only speaks Spanish. When they play together it is so funny to see them blabber on and on to each other until one of them hears a word that sounds familiar and then they just repeat that word and nod like they’re totally connecting. Like today the one that speaks Spanish said “Venga a poner los pantalones en la muneca!” and the other heard “pantalones” and was just like “Oui, pantalon!” They’re best friends and it’s the cutest and funniest thing I’ve ever seen.
tumblr: on languages
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, lough, and through?
Well done! And now you wish perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead - it's said like bed, not bead -
For goodness sake, don't call it 'deed'.
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt):
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose -
Just look them up - and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front, and word and sword,
And do and go, and thwart and cart -
Come! Come! I've hardly made a start!
~from the Manchester Guardian, 1954
Proof that English is as fickle as they say it is.
And for anyone unfamiliar with old-fashioned British phonetics, hiccough is pronounced like hiccup and lough is "lak." Thank you Merriam Webster.
will you marry me = a marriage proposal will, you, Mary, me = a foursome proposal
three internet trends i will (regrettably) probably never grow out of:
• typing in a cresCENDO TO EXPRESS EXCITEMENT • …………..unnecessarily……. long……….. ellipsis’ • puttinfh a typo in eveyr other word to shwo u dont really give a fukc but u actually do
every year we have to say it
fickled ghoti [pʰɪkəld fɪʃ] n : A blog made up primarily of linguistic play.
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