Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Write or Die?

I think it was last week that Thevy asked me where something was. She said, "Mom, where's my riding toy?" Or so I thought. I had responded that I didn't know and what riding toy? Later, she gave a description of this alleged toy. And that's when I learned that she had been asking for her "writing toy".

I already knew it, but it made me ponder it again, what a tricky language English can be, especially for those learning it as a second language. I encountered linguistic ambiguity with Thevy again the other day. Well, sort of, but not really. I had told her to say something to Daddy with the phrase "serial killer". (Don't ask. :)) Since it's not like she knows what one is, but I thought later, what if she thought she was being told to say "cereal killer"? lol