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Subject:It's Definate By Now From:Liz Bohn <Lbohn -at- UCSD -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 2 Jun 1995 11:19:45 -0700
On Thu, 1 Jun 1995 10:13:30 -0700 someone (sorry) wrote:
>Aspect one... Peer pressure. My daughter spoke grammatically
>correct English (including the proper use of adverbs like
>'well') as a toddler. But when she started school, her
>grammatical skills folded like a house of cards because it
>wasn't cool... She sounded like a nerd. And the older she
>got, the worse this phenom. became.
Hmm... Then there was the day I got the call from the school guidance
counselor telling me to "teach my daughter how to speak like a regular
kid."
I replied, "Huh?" (I was stunned, which accounts for the paucity of words.
Ask Richard. Usually I talk a lot.)
HE (the counselor) replied, "She talks like a miniature adult. You gotta
teach her to talk like a kid."
I replied (again), "Huh?"
HE replied, "You know, like, teach her to like..."
I thanked him politely (sort of) and switched her to a school where
EVERYBODY talks in the manner of Lt. Cmdr. Data.
Liz Bohn "Suddenly Christopher Robin began to tell Pooh
Lbohn -at- ucsd -dot- edu about... people called Kings and Queens and some-
thing called Factors, ... and how you make a
Suction Pump (if you want to)... And Pooh said
"Oh!" and "I didn't know," and thought how
wonderful it would be to have a Real Brain which
could tell you things."
