2008-12-04

pne: A picture of a plush toy, halfway between a duck and a platypus, with a green body and a yellow bill and feet. (Default)
2008-12-04 08:44 am
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Bilingual communication strategies

"Daddy, Erik has a Playmobil advent calendar! And today he had... (turns to Stella) Mami, eine Playmobil-Palme!"

Or, in which she Amy avoids speaking German to me even when she doesn't know the English word :)

I'm also amused by the fact that there seem to be a number of words which she knows in English but not in German, her stronger language! For example, teaspoon, tablespoon, and eyebrows.

pne: A picture of a plush toy, halfway between a duck and a platypus, with a green body and a yellow bill and feet. (Default)
2008-12-04 07:10 pm
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Baah (Surreal New Year's Resolutions and 12 Days of Christmas Memes)

One good thing came from the memes: I noticed that I had spelled my interest "artifical languages" incorrectly when I added it. (Or copied a misspelled interest from someone else without noticing.) Anyway, fixed now.

And I was most amused by the six linguistics a-breastfeeding. Though I'm sure charities can also always use more writing systems.