Adjectives Banned
Mar. 5th, 2007 03:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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languagelog, I just had to point out a recent entry, in which the following was related by one of their correspondents:
I was in the Children's Museum in Baltimore when I overheard this conversation between a mother and a young son, concerning a bizarre "fun house" installation, which had sloping ceilings, "wrong" furniture, odd colors, and all sorts of other things meant to delight children with its absurdity:
SON: I want to go in that silly house again!
MOTHER: Don't you remember? We do NOT use ADJECTIVES!
SON: Sorry, mommy!
The entry goes on to point out that what the mother is presumably trying to teach her kid is not to use judgmental language. But that's equally ludicrous. WTF, mom?!
languagelog, I just had to point out a recent entry, in which the following was related by one of their correspondents:I was in the Children's Museum in Baltimore when I overheard this conversation between a mother and a young son, concerning a bizarre "fun house" installation, which had sloping ceilings, "wrong" furniture, odd colors, and all sorts of other things meant to delight children with its absurdity:
SON: I want to go in that silly house again!
MOTHER: Don't you remember? We do NOT use ADJECTIVES!
SON: Sorry, mommy!
The entry goes on to point out that what the mother is presumably trying to teach her kid is not to use judgmental language. But that's equally ludicrous. WTF, mom?!
