The trouble with getting nifty expressions from reading books

[naomikritzer]

"Daddy, I'll let Kiera file you in on all the dentals."

Yes, she said both "file" and "dentals."

"File" instead of "fill" actually makes a certain logical sense, but "dentals" instead of "details"?

Comments

[kythiaranos.livejournal.com]

I have this vision now of your entire family looking like some lost jungle tribe in National Geographic, filed teeth and all.

(A few weeks ago, the boy twin asked at dinner what 'egotistical' meant, and his sister said, "It means you're self-absorbant." I love kidisms.)

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

I once got into soooooo much trouble when I worked the kid psych unit 'cuz I told one of the little blighters that "aquatic" animals looked sort of blueish-green.

[kythiaranos.livejournal.com]

Heh. When the twins ask which of them is older, my husband always gives them a different answer.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Your husband isn't Calvin's dad by any chance, is he?

[kythiaranos.livejournal.com]

I believe that's his parenting role model. *snerk*

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

I fear for you, my child.

[maevele.livejournal.com]

it's not that far off. As a child I thought the word "pedestrian" was pronounced with an extra N. As "Pedestranian."

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Has she caught that dread disease, Punning?

[naomikritzer]

No. The crime of punning requires intent.

[pants-of-doom.livejournal.com]

N and T are made right in the same place in the mouth.

[pants-of-doom.livejournal.com]

So my point is it's an obvious thing to do from a linguistic point.

[naomikritzer]

Yeah, but "eh" and "ee" are really pretty different, and she said dentals, not deentals.

[pants-of-doom.livejournal.com]

Linguistically they're not that different, and once she decided there was an N she may have gone with the word she thought it was.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

awesome.