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Transnational Raunchiness

04/14/09

Some times one can find huge coincidences and similarities between otherwise very different cultures and languages. Take for example, the oh-so delightful phenomenon where kids who are learning to speak, pronounce words in ways that make them sounds like profanity. You know, your beautiful child’s mouth innocently (and unwittingly) emitting R-rated epithets, much to the delight of your juvenile friends and YouTube followers. But what is really mind-blowing to me is that such tricky words or concepts be the same in two very different languages. For a couple of days now, I’ve been working with my automotively-obsesed boy to get him to learn the Spanish word for “truck”, which is “camión”. Maybe you see where I’m going with this: Many toddlers seem to have…

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Clarity

04/03/09

Trying to raise a bilingual child brings to the surface the many semantic subtleties of language. Yesterday, my boy was excitedly going about his routine of taking as many toys as he could out of their assigned places in his play area, which he does especially diligently when he comes back from daycare because he still likes us and is happy to be home. In the middle of creating this little “toynado” (to borrow a term from a co-worker of mine), he stumbled upon a hairbrush that either I or his mother had absentmindedly left there. With a serious look on his face, he held the hairbrush up for me to see, and because he knows I’m a trained monkey and will react to…

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