It seems that everyone in my family is trying to learn a new language. Josh went out yesterday with a foreign friend to go buy a wireless router for our house (making our internet access much more convenient). His friend needed to buy a paper shredder. So, off they go to the electronics plaza place where you can pretty much buy anything that has a cord on the end of it. Josh finds the router easily, so they go look at some shredders. At this one particular store, they are conversing with the shopkeeper (not in english, of course) about different features of shredders. (this scenario is vastly beyond my own language ability; I'm so glad it was not me there!) The lady asks a question that is unintelligble to josh and the accompanying hand signs are no further help. The vocabulary she was using was obviously specific to shredders, a topic seldom studied in language school. :) Finally, she asks in cautious english "You want paper like noodles or like rice!? this one like noodles, this one like rice." So it must be true that asians can relate anything to rice!
Our daughter emma is also learning a new language, and she is constantly amazing us with how fast she says and imitates things. She has started putting two-word phrases together a lot: "mommy's toes", "samantha sneeze", "dora-dora hurt" (that's when she throws dora on the ground). But our recent favorites have come when she gets her consonants mixed up: bug becomes gub, boogers become goobers, and book becomes goop. Tonight emma pooped in the bathtub (our brand new bathtub) and she said, "oh dear!"
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Nodoby asked, but my advice is go with the rice kind. It just looks a lot cooler and makes for a much more exciting practical joke (much harder to clean from the front yard). Anyway, I'm trying to get your comment count high so I'll be commenting at least once on every entry. Happy noodling.
Emmas's namesake(4 legged) poops in her stall all the time! Now I know where she got it from !
Great Granpa
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