"Children who can switch back and forth between languages have accomplished something special: they understand two languages."From a pamphlet that recently came home from public Montessori with the boy.
Does any one else see the incredibly grating syntactical constructs of our Dear Leader behind this? Is it the painfully insulting way that he tries to explain a simple argument in a way that even we, the simple and dull children-citizens of this country, can understand?
Whit heard me grumbling as I read this and asked why. As god is my witness, I didn't know how to explain in a way that wouldn't lead to him hating the government forever just because his dad does right now.
Should I have bothered?
"In a phonological orthography, a grapheme corresponds to one phoneme. In spelling systems that are non-phonemic — such as the spellings used most widely for written English — multiple graphemes may represent a single phoneme. These are called digraphs (two graphemes for a single phoneme) and trigraphs (three graphemes). For example, the word ship contains four graphemes (s, h, i, and p) but only three phonemes, because sh is a digraph."
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme
While in search of a definition of *pictograph* that fit nicely my evidential needs.
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"An evidential is the particular grammatical element (affix, clitic, or particle) that indicates evidentiality."
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidentiality
Dang.
can language describing itself be likened to a rock knowing itself?
Jeremy, to answer your question, no. You will feel it when the time is right to explicate your varied murmurs to the child.
Meahwhile they, your murmurs, are part of the fascinating and mysterious mosaic of things Da.
Fathers, in their relentless pursuit of fame, vast if not in breadth then in depth, leave the most loving and intentional trail of crumbs, food for the young mind. Finding joy in solving puzzles is the broad road of a happy and fulfilling life. What more challenging puzzle is there than Da?
Jeremy,
Please edit my latest posting to begin "Meanwhile they, your murmurs and grumblings, are part of the [etc.]".
Thank you from my bottom.
Dave
(you can tell. work's slow.)
nope, strike that edit...too many and's
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