Sunday, November 29, 2020

Quick Tumblr Post On Kids' Language Struggles


There's no denying that kids are just plain weird. Many of us might be able to recall (or have heard about) our own struggles with grasping the English language while growing up. The genuine moments of confusion when it comes to being able to accurately express oneself as a kid growing up, can make for some truly hilarious moments. Like these. 

Check out some more gold from Tumblr with this post about how trees are actually low key monsters.

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Text - love-and-hate-3 awkwardshadd... Follow fozmeadows Watching my toddler figure out how to language is fascinating. Yesterday we were stumped when he kept insisting there was a "Lego winner" behind his bookshelf - it turned out to be a little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing the word for "trophy", he'd extrapolated a word for "thing you can win". And then, just now, he held up his empty milk container and said, "Mummy? It's not rubbish. It's allowed to be a bottle." - meaning, effectively, "I wa

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Text - jennytrout My son was about three when he came to me in the middle of the day and said, “Mommy, there's a knight behind the bush." I thought he meant a toy knight or something. So I follow him outside and he goes, "Listen. Do you hear it? It's night behind the bush." It was a cricket. A cricket was standing in the little patch of shade under the bush, chirping. So, my son saw this dark area with accompanying nighttime sounds and decided, okay, well, that is a night right there. Their brai

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Text - joanws My little bean knows she's two, constantly saying proudly 'I'm two!' And the other day she saw this very frail old lady who looked one foot in the grave, pulled a face and said 'oh shiiit. She's three.' I almost screamed. cantnotknope I live in Korea and have a lot of international friends, and the same is true with language barriers in adults. *Looking at a bowl of pears* "Can you please pass me the... apple's friend?" masterofbirds OH SHIT SHE'S THREE Source: fozmeadows 272,984 n

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