Happy Birthday Fiona!
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sumi - Oct 26, 2004 4:11:47 am PDT #7241 of 9843
Art Crawl!!!
Polter-Cow - Oct 26, 2004 4:17:20 am PDT #7242 of 9843
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Happy birthday, Fiona!
Fiona - Oct 26, 2004 4:30:33 am PDT #7243 of 9843
Thank you everybody!
My day his improved already. There was cake invovled.
Nutty - Oct 26, 2004 5:01:21 am PDT #7244 of 9843
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Happies to Fiona.
There's a reason that "pas devant les enfants" was the first foreign phrase I learned...
My grandparents, who were old-school about such things, used to speak French to each other in front of us. But some of my cousins are French-Canadian, so my grandparents would spell (in English) in front of those children. When you put the two sets of children together, and my sister old enough to spell reasonably, my grandparents ran out of options for speaking devant les enfants.
Kate P. - Oct 26, 2004 5:02:06 am PDT #7245 of 9843
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Happy Fiona Day!
I'm very envious of people who grow up speaking two languages. It's such a great gift to give your kids.
Sue - Oct 26, 2004 5:11:20 am PDT #7246 of 9843
hip deep in pie
My parents never spoke French in front of me. Except when they were speaking to French people. It helps that my mother doesn't speak French.
Sue - Oct 26, 2004 5:19:17 am PDT #7247 of 9843
hip deep in pie
Kate, I was very sad that, had I been born a year later, I could have entered a French immersion program. My French is almost non-existent, even though my Dad is bilingual.
Nilly - Oct 26, 2004 5:24:16 am PDT #7248 of 9843
Swouncing
Yay cake! Also, people want you to have a good day in Natter as well.
It's such a great gift to give your kids.
When it's done right (like Fiona and her SO with Benno), it sure is.
However, when not, it can confuse the poor child to no end. A daughter of a friend of mine, 3.5 years old, speaks Hebrew with the sentence-structure of English, hardly ever any English, and lacks lots of words in both languages, because her parents insisted on speaking with her in English. It's not the mother tongue of any of them, so they have lots of mistakes, and they keep slipping into Hebrew without noticing.
[Edit: 7²=49]
Trudy Booth - Oct 26, 2004 6:13:20 am PDT #7249 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPIEST BIRTHDAY, FIONA!
Theodosia - Oct 26, 2004 6:29:17 am PDT #7250 of 9843
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Happy Birthday, Fiona!