Vocabulary

[yrieithydd]

I was amused this morning as I was sat by the river. Two mothers went past with their young children in pushchairs; these were cunning pushchairs with a front and a back seat. As they approached, one mother said `look, the black swan; who can see the black swan?' Then as they got closer to the black swan, she said 'It's an antipodean swan; it comes from Australia or New Zealand'. I smiled and thought `yes, that's the way to do, use long words and they'll learn them and not be scared'. It's like Beatrice Potter and Soporofic!

Comments

[curig.livejournal.com]

It's like Beatrice Potter and Soporofic!

Even better if they learn how to spell them too! :p

[yrieithydd.livejournal.com]

:-P

[emperor]

Isn't that "soporific"?

[yrieithydd.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I was too busy not falling into the mispronounced spelling (sopowific) that I got my vowels confused!

[serenasnape.livejournal.com]

I love it when adults treat children like adults-in-progress, rather than itsy-bitsy-fluffy-wuffy-cutiepies who wouldn't know what the big scary-wary wordies would mean.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

It's funny actually that parents generally address children with baby words and grammar, but they do learn langauge.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I always found this comic: http://www.partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1023 so tragic. Children seem to love long words, so long as they don't have use them exclusively.