Our Unschooling Adventure - which officially started in Lowell in the Fall of 2005 - now continues in Berlin.

Monday, August 06, 2007

Supriya-isms

"Daddy, please higher the volume." Supriya asked me. "That's perfectly correct," Manisha said. "If 'lower the volume' is acceptable, so is 'higher the volume.'" I agree.

Supriya has several others like this - words that should be acceptable but aren't (yet) because they lack sanction from the gate-keepers. Supriya often uses "tooken", as in "I should have tooken it with me." She has also used "putten" several times. As they say, language happens...

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