Jilli, I just found a pair of wee pumpkin tights!
Yay!
'Why We Fight'
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Jilli, I just found a pair of wee pumpkin tights!
Yay!
We're babysitting an 8 week old kitten for a friend. Yesterday I went to take a nap, the kitten kept trying to sniff my breath (or something) and I finally got it to stop and fell asleep. When Greg came to wake me, I was sleeping on my back and the kitten was asleep on my tummy. He said it was very cute.
I really dislike regency or historical characters that sound like modern americans too, and have no other input on the dialect subject other than to say that it also annoys me when iincluded dialect makes a character sound stupid, or the book or its characters feel racist or classist.
I am so boooorrrrrrreeeeddddd.....
I need to be motivated and figure out stuff to do in my downtime.
Oh Plei, she's too precious
FYI Cindy, that's Ellie, not Lily. Unless you knew that already and were just agreeing with the person who brought it up.
Nope, I was clueless. I didn't look at the account. I thought she looked different, but wow, still so beautiful. Man, we have beautiful babies in this group.
How are you doing today, Cindy- have you been able to speak to your doctors about yesterday's events?
I think I had something approximating a mild bout of PTSD this morning. My mother's here (I think she's making sure I don't go completely around the bend) playing Go Fish with the kids. She brought lunch, and then insisted I nap, but I couldn't. Still the half hour of quiet helped, a lot, and she started my laundry during the faux nap. so yay. And yes, today I have...
a) Made myself crystal clear to whomever answered the phone, this morning, that this was a huge error and that I'm furious. When she played (or at least seemed to be playing) obtuse when I requested that they submit a Vaccine Adverse Event Report through VAERS.org, I got specific, and detailed, and extra haughty and righteously incensed.
b) Received call from the PA who administered the shot (and who has been with the practice for as long as we have). She listened, apologized, and offered to research some of my concerns re Chris's health. Agreed the office staff flubbed, and was as accomodating as could be. She is a lovely person to begin with, and my favorite on staff with that office, and our conversaton was actually good, and not so snarky.
c) Received call from doctor. The first words out of his mouth after making sure Chris was okay, was to let me know he'd had a long, involved discussion with the entire staff over what went wrong. He's decided to prescribe Zyrtec for Chris for the next month, and give him a short course of Prednisone, just in case, because the hives lasted longer than he was aware.
I told him he was lucky this happened to the child of experienced parents, because if some young, inexperienced mother who was intimidated by doctors had been in my position, it could have turned out much, much worse. At some point the words, "Because, you know, basically, if you don't take me seriously, I'm confident enough in my mothering to say 'Screw you' and take my kid to the E.R. anyhow, where a young mother might not be," may have entered into the conversation.
As for him missing the signs in the office, I understand some of that. We were all trying to hustle the boys out to the waiting room, so that we could talk to him privately about some developmental questions. He honestly thought Chris was just upset when we were in office, because his breathing and heart sounded fine, and the popsicle seemed to console him, some. He had missed some of when Chris first started to react, and of the worst of it happened in the car on the way home, so I'm confident enough that his part in the error was understandable (it was certainly no worse than my own, because I *knew* there was something else going on, and failed to trust my gut when the doctor and dh's attitudes didn't match my own).
Should he have insisted Chris stay a while longer? Yes. Do I understand how he failed to see what he would have needed to see to make that happen, yes.
As soon as he knew it was an allergic reaction, he was on the phone, telling me to rush Chris to the E.R., so for now, we're good. He's been our Pedi since Ben was born, and I took a Childcare class from him when I was pregnant, so I have a decent amount of confidence in him, and know doctors aren't infallible, and the signs he saw weren't crystal clear.
Apropos of everything and oddly enough, I didn't have to wait to talk to anyone at that office, today. My name was more priceless than MasterCard. It's funny how that works, huh? *g*
Also, I have remembered two valuable lessons from my Nana:
It's nice when you have something to look forward to, isn't it?Just makes the whole day a little shinier.
I like well-written dialect but it is incredibly hard to find. A little flavor goes a long way for me.
If I was going to put my Dutch SiL on the page, I would try to capture the flavor of the way she speaks English. She will say something like "We were most happy to see the Mother on her visit." Which is a combination of translating from Dutch in her head and learning English from schoolbooks. Cleaning up the grammar on her sentences would not be accurate.I like this. It has the right sound.
( continues...) Knows Your Kid Better than You Do
Okay, that was just pathetic that the post continued for that little, interrupted point. Ugh. Need chocolate.
Chocolate for Cindy.
Must scheme to get together with you soon!
If I was going to put my Dutch SiL on the page, I would try to capture the flavor of the way she speaks English. She will say something like "We were most happy to see the Mother on her visit." Which is a combination of translating from Dutch in her head and learning English from schoolbooks. Cleaning up the grammar on her sentences would not be accurate.
Fair, because it captures the rhythm. But I'd be tearing my hair out if it were written as, "Ve vere most happy to see die Mutter on her fisit." Which is what I think of as "written dialect."
Also, I have remembered two valuable lessons from my NanaGood to hear this. It sounds like your doctor is at least responding. I am so glad you were not some new inexperienced mother too.
When she played (or at least seemed to be playing) obtuse when I requested that they submit a Vaccine Adverse Event Report through VAERS.org, I got specific, and detailed, and extra haughty and righteously incensed.Good.
I am writing out an email to a client (a good one, one I actually like working with quite a lot) that not every single element of a page can be the most important. Please sir, don't make me write a Web site with flashing yellow text.
Which is what I think of as "written dialect."
I know there is at least one effort underway to standardise Jamaican Patois spelling. I just don't know what they went with. But the difference between "Him not go work like that" and "Im naa go wuk like dat" is big enough that maybe standardisation ...
Oh, fuck if I know. I just know you can't write it without the accent and not have it look supremely alien.