Little gems of language use
Sandra Dodd
My sister posted this on facebook:
Irene Adams
Tomorrow night Dylan C. Lomon and I shall perform well rehearsed syncronized masterpieces of musical magic. If that proves to be too difficult, we'll just jam-out. The High Country Saloon, Chama,NM. Fri, Feb 10th, 7-10, No Cover charge
One day when Kirby was 12 or so, several of us were at a park. I was with another adult friend of mine who had been living in another state and didn't know my kids very well. Kirby had borrowed the car keys to get something from the van, and brought them back to me, but I asked him to put them in my basket, about eight feet from where I was standing. He kind of slumped and showed the great difficulty of complying with that request, and my friend said "Would you like some cheese with that whine?"
Kirby stood back up while looking my friend (Cathyn, for those who know him) down face to foot, and back up to his face and said: "Would *you* be cutting it?"
OH MY GOD, it was so wonderfully timed and presented that I took the keys and Cathyn bowed to him and complimented him.
Later I asked Kirby where he had heard that, whether it was a quote from a movie or something, but no, he came up with it on the spot.
A few months ago, Holly had a bunch of friends over (oh, probably her birthday, so November) and we were playing Wise and Otherwise, which is like playing dictionary--you make something plausible up to bluff. Some of us played it at SUSS, and some at the ALL Unschooling Symposium. But each player completes a proverb from some culture or other. This was "there is an old West African saying" (I think it was): The king is like...
There were eight or ten players--a good number. Holly wrote "...famous and stuff." (The king is like famous and stuff.)
A friend of hers wrote "The king is like a monkey in a piñata."
I can't forget that image.
So I wanted to say, for parents who wonder about their child learning to write, that they should think more about their opportunities to play with language in amusing, fun, but real-life ways, than about whether they can "compose a sentence."
I'm going to collect some examples of tiny little writings, incidental texts, jokes, role-playing jewels on a page called http://sandradodd.com/language/shortbursts
(If you go there now, it will be a mess, but someday it might not be.)
Sandra
Irene Adams
Tomorrow night Dylan C. Lomon and I shall perform well rehearsed syncronized masterpieces of musical magic. If that proves to be too difficult, we'll just jam-out. The High Country Saloon, Chama,NM. Fri, Feb 10th, 7-10, No Cover charge
One day when Kirby was 12 or so, several of us were at a park. I was with another adult friend of mine who had been living in another state and didn't know my kids very well. Kirby had borrowed the car keys to get something from the van, and brought them back to me, but I asked him to put them in my basket, about eight feet from where I was standing. He kind of slumped and showed the great difficulty of complying with that request, and my friend said "Would you like some cheese with that whine?"
Kirby stood back up while looking my friend (Cathyn, for those who know him) down face to foot, and back up to his face and said: "Would *you* be cutting it?"
OH MY GOD, it was so wonderfully timed and presented that I took the keys and Cathyn bowed to him and complimented him.
Later I asked Kirby where he had heard that, whether it was a quote from a movie or something, but no, he came up with it on the spot.
A few months ago, Holly had a bunch of friends over (oh, probably her birthday, so November) and we were playing Wise and Otherwise, which is like playing dictionary--you make something plausible up to bluff. Some of us played it at SUSS, and some at the ALL Unschooling Symposium. But each player completes a proverb from some culture or other. This was "there is an old West African saying" (I think it was): The king is like...
There were eight or ten players--a good number. Holly wrote "...famous and stuff." (The king is like famous and stuff.)
A friend of hers wrote "The king is like a monkey in a piñata."
I can't forget that image.
So I wanted to say, for parents who wonder about their child learning to write, that they should think more about their opportunities to play with language in amusing, fun, but real-life ways, than about whether they can "compose a sentence."
I'm going to collect some examples of tiny little writings, incidental texts, jokes, role-playing jewels on a page called http://sandradodd.com/language/shortbursts
(If you go there now, it will be a mess, but someday it might not be.)
Sandra
joanne.lopers
It is so much fun when children play with language.
I was saying a short prayer before eating,
"Father we thank-thee for what we are about to receive and let us for ever be grateful."
He looked up with a big smile and said, "We're not having salad." Took me a minute but I got it. Let us-Lettuce.
Joanne
I was saying a short prayer before eating,
"Father we thank-thee for what we are about to receive and let us for ever be grateful."
He looked up with a big smile and said, "We're not having salad." Took me a minute but I got it. Let us-Lettuce.
Joanne
--- In [email protected], Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:
>
> My sister posted this on facebook:
>
> Irene Adams
> Tomorrow night Dylan C. Lomon and I shall perform well rehearsed syncronized masterpieces of musical magic. If that proves to be too difficult, we'll just jam-out. The High Country Saloon, Chama,NM. Fri, Feb 10th, 7-10, No Cover charge
>
> One day when Kirby was 12 or so, several of us were at a park. I was with another adult friend of mine who had been living in another state and didn't know my kids very well. Kirby had borrowed the car keys to get something from the van, and brought them back to me, but I asked him to put them in my basket, about eight feet from where I was standing. He kind of slumped and showed the great difficulty of complying with that request, and my friend said "Would you like some cheese with that whine?"
>
> Kirby stood back up while looking my friend (Cathyn, for those who know him) down face to foot, and back up to his face and said: "Would *you* be cutting it?"
>
> OH MY GOD, it was so wonderfully timed and presented that I took the keys and Cathyn bowed to him and complimented him.
>
> Later I asked Kirby where he had heard that, whether it was a quote from a movie or something, but no, he came up with it on the spot.
>
> A few months ago, Holly had a bunch of friends over (oh, probably her birthday, so November) and we were playing Wise and Otherwise, which is like playing dictionary--you make something plausible up to bluff. Some of us played it at SUSS, and some at the ALL Unschooling Symposium. But each player completes a proverb from some culture or other. This was "there is an old West African saying" (I think it was): The king is like...
>
> There were eight or ten players--a good number. Holly wrote "...famous and stuff." (The king is like famous and stuff.)
> A friend of hers wrote "The king is like a monkey in a piñata."
>
> I can't forget that image.
>
> So I wanted to say, for parents who wonder about their child learning to write, that they should think more about their opportunities to play with language in amusing, fun, but real-life ways, than about whether they can "compose a sentence."
>
> I'm going to collect some examples of tiny little writings, incidental texts, jokes, role-playing jewels on a page called http://sandradodd.com/language/shortbursts
> (If you go there now, it will be a mess, but someday it might not be.)
>
> Sandra
>
Tori
--- In [email protected], "joanne.lopers" <wilmalv@...> wrote:
> He looked up with a big smile and said, "We're not having salad." Took me a minute but I got it. Let us-Lettuce.My 4 yr old daughter describes our credit union (where the tellers adore my kids and we are always welcomed heartily) as "the bank with not very sharp teeth." This grew from a conversation where she and my son had argued over the words predator and creditor, and my husband shared his opinion of our mortgage lender.
> Joanne
>
Denaire
The kids and I like to look for Oxymorons. Here are a few I found this morning online.
An oxymoron is a combination of words that contradict each other.
1. virtual reality
2. original copy
3. old news
4. act naturally
5. pretty ugly
6. living dead
7. jumbo shrimp
8. rolling stop
9. constant variable
10. exact estimate
11. paid volunteers
12. civil war
13. sound of silence
14. clever fool
15. only choice
Denaire Nixon
An oxymoron is a combination of words that contradict each other.
1. virtual reality
2. original copy
3. old news
4. act naturally
5. pretty ugly
6. living dead
7. jumbo shrimp
8. rolling stop
9. constant variable
10. exact estimate
11. paid volunteers
12. civil war
13. sound of silence
14. clever fool
15. only choice
Denaire Nixon
--- In [email protected], "joanne.lopers" <wilmalv@...> wrote:
>
> It is so much fun when children play with language.
> I was saying a short prayer before eating,
> "Father we thank-thee for what we are about to receive and let us for ever be grateful."
> He looked up with a big smile and said, "We're not having salad." Took me a minute but I got it. Let us-Lettuce.
> Joanne
>
>
>
Julie van der Wekken
Came across this video of Bob Dylan playing with words and it reminded me of this thread
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj2CPqX-tLc&feature=related
it also reminds me of when my children play with Magnetic Poetry, arranging words together to form a sentence or phrase, and then taking those same words and mixing them up to form something that sounds funny or totally ridiculous.
Julie v.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj2CPqX-tLc&feature=related
it also reminds me of when my children play with Magnetic Poetry, arranging words together to form a sentence or phrase, and then taking those same words and mixing them up to form something that sounds funny or totally ridiculous.
Julie v.
Genevieve Raymond
This one's great too--Weird Al doing Bob Dylan-style palindromes such as,
"Lisa Bonet Ate No Basil." Good stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej4xJe4Tdg
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Julie van der Wekken <
thewekkenfam@...> wrote:
"Lisa Bonet Ate No Basil." Good stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej4xJe4Tdg
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Julie van der Wekken <
thewekkenfam@...> wrote:
> **[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
> Came across this video of Bob Dylan playing with words and it reminded me
> of this thread
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj2CPqX-tLc&feature=related
>
> it also reminds me of when my children play with Magnetic Poetry,
> arranging words together to form a sentence or phrase, and then taking
> those same words and mixing them up to form something that sounds funny or
> totally ridiculous.
>
> Julie v.
>
>
>
Robin Bentley
Senna refers to mistakes in speaking (like mixing up words, saying
something incorrectly or tongue-tied-ness) as "Typos in real life."
Robin B.
something incorrectly or tongue-tied-ness) as "Typos in real life."
Robin B.
aldq75
When my kids are playing and need a break, instead of saying "Time Out", they say "Pause". I've heard this from our unschooling friends, too. They use other video game words in their imaginative play, too, including leveling up and using a life.
Andrea Q
Andrea Q
--- In [email protected], Robin Bentley <robin.bentley@...> wrote:
>
> Senna refers to mistakes in speaking (like mixing up words, saying
> something incorrectly or tongue-tied-ness) as "Typos in real life."
>
> Robin B.
>
sheeboo2
----When my kids are playing and need a break, instead of saying "Time Out", they
say "Pause".-----
Noor does that too! And she says, "Wait, rewind...." when she wants you to repeat something, or when she wants to say something over.
She also describes the feeling of her foot falling asleep as, "pixel-y"
Brie
say "Pause".-----
Noor does that too! And she says, "Wait, rewind...." when she wants you to repeat something, or when she wants to say something over.
She also describes the feeling of her foot falling asleep as, "pixel-y"
Brie
Colleen
**Noor does that too! And she says, "Wait, rewind...." when she wants you to repeat something, or when she wants to say something over.**
When my son was 3, I asked him to remind me to look for a particular movie he wanted to see on On Demand (cable TV) when we got home. He said "hold on mom - I'm sending my brain an email so it won't forget!" :-)
When my son was 3, I asked him to remind me to look for a particular movie he wanted to see on On Demand (cable TV) when we got home. He said "hold on mom - I'm sending my brain an email so it won't forget!" :-)
alma
--- In [email protected], "sheeboo2" <brmino@...> wrote:
Alison
DS(9) and DS(6)
>I was reminded of this just now. My son (6) and I were working through a lego instruction booklet and needed to go back a page, but I turned two by mistake. "Oh no Mummy" he cried "You've rewinded too far."
>
> Noor [......] says, "Wait, rewind...." when she wants you to repeat something, or when she wants to say something over.
>
>
Alison
DS(9) and DS(6)
Deb Lewis
When Dylan was little we found a monster movie marathon on TV on New Year’s eve and monster movies became a New Year’s Eve tradition. One year, when Dylan was maybe seven or eight our marathon was Gamera movies. Sometime earlier we had read or talked about a story Stephen Hawking tells in his book, A Brief History of Time about a conversation between a scientist and a flat earther. The flat earther says the world is supported on the back of a tortoise and when asked what supports the tortoise the flat earther says, “It’s turtles all the way down.”
As we were nestling in to watch our Gamera marathon I asked Dylan if he’d like to switch over later to watch the ball drop in Times Square and he said, “No, it’s a turtles all the way countdown for us!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKv1rJHE59k&feature=relmfu
I’m behind on email, so sorry for the late response.
Deb Lewis
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As we were nestling in to watch our Gamera marathon I asked Dylan if he’d like to switch over later to watch the ball drop in Times Square and he said, “No, it’s a turtles all the way countdown for us!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKv1rJHE59k&feature=relmfu
I’m behind on email, so sorry for the late response.
Deb Lewis
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