Thursday, October 14, 2010

Family Words

I love the way baby words are incorporated into a family's language. For instance, my parents and siblings still refer to "Ha King" for ice cream and tell one another that we "yuff you much" when saying goodbye. My own children have added to this with their own words and phrases and I know I will use them long after they've learned proper pronunciation and syntax, hopefully forever. Mostly in my head or when talking to Bradley - I can't see myself telling a colleague that "I can't found it!" like Willa Ann or laughingly saying "way way waaaaaay back in the days" when discussing something that happened last week as Charlie Mac does to anybody else. But that's what makes this language special - it's made of Family Words.

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