Roy Huggins Says Stuff » Things That Make English Hard to Learn http://www.royhuggins.com Just another WerbBless testplug Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:26:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Kids Say the Darnedest Things http://www.royhuggins.com/2009/10/kids-say-the-darnedest-things/ http://www.royhuggins.com/2009/10/kids-say-the-darnedest-things/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:38:28 +0000 Roy Huggins http://www.royhuggins.com/2009/10/kids-say-the-darnedest-things/ Today at my elementary school visit I had occasion to chat with a couple of adorable first graders in the hallway. This conversation was in Japanese:

Me: I have to go now. Bai bai! [That last part is "bye bye" but pronounced the way the Japanese do.]
Little girl: Bai bai! *pause* How do you say “bai bai” in English?
Me: “Bai bai” is English.
LG: *pause* But how do you say it in English?
Me: Well, we say “bye bye”.
LG: You say the same thing?
Me: Yes.
LG: Wow!

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“Didn’t Really” vs. “Really Didn’t”

Switch the word order to increase emphasis. Bug or feature?

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