wrong words

[deird_lj]

I'm pretty good at most aspects of Nephew Vocabulary.
(Boys burping at the dinner table should be followed by "scuse" as a child-friendly substitute for "excuse me", the orange-and-black marbles are "tiger marbles", and apparently singing a scale starting from "Lah" and going up is "the tricky song"...)

I do, however, occasionally forget that some of my standard terminology is not what the boys are used to.

Hence Caleb cracking up laughing last night and proclaiming "Auntie Deird, you talk funny!" when I asked him if he needed to "use the loo" rather than "go to the toilet".

What with that, and my periodic slipping into a pseudo-Irish accent last night, I provided much amusement for my nephew...



(In other news - it's Spring! Yay! *dances through blossom-covered trees*)

Comments

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Oh, that scene is just delightful to imagine. So cute.

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Awwwwww.

Man, I ENJOY vicariously havin' cute toddler time through you. ENJOY.


And, oh, see, I'd been wondering about that recently - if Australians would call like this time of year spring cause it's like spring weather here or fall cause it's fall for us. Which...don't know why it would be the other way, but, well. I'm ignorant.

[deird1]

*huggles my nephews*


Actually, we don't call any time of year "fall" - because it's autumn.

(And I'd say having boiling hot winters would be even weirder than having Christmas during summer, really...)

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Ohh, right. Cause...not so much with the trees that have leaves that change color and fall to the ground and have to be picked up by the trash guys after you rake them off your lawn. Don't remember the fancy word. Used to. Getting stupider.

And yeah, it's what you're used to.

[deird1]

We kinda do, actually.

Not the native trees - they're usually green year-round - but the Brits who colonised the place got all homesick and planted lots of European trees in the cities, so we get quite a lot of falling autumn leaves and stuff.

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Like how they named like every frigging place after shit they got back in England. Okay.

...so then why isn't it called fall? I guess they don't call it fall it Britain, either? Or do they?? Ugh, I'm so American.

[deird1]

According to Wikipedia, "fall" is just American English. You guys are weird. :P

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. So I've been told.

But 'autumn' is just so FORMAL. Which...I guess I say because we only use the word 'autumn' here when we're being weird and formal. Words are weird!

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Not to take all the fun out of it, but introducing the boys to words they don't know, or that they only know in a different context is made of win! The more words the better. The funnier the words, the more likely they will come to love language play, the way that you do! The gift that keeps on giving, you see?

There is all this boring research about brain development and language, but you are completely on the right track (as I suspect you already know).

[keldaryth.livejournal.com]

Yay for spring. And Buffy Icons. This is Yuhan, Alex's BF.

Consider yourself friended :)

[deird1]

Hi! *waves*