So, I had the *best* idea today.

[conuly]

The best, I swear!

Ana's been a letter-identifying fiend lately. It's great. And I want to capitalize on this as much as possible.

You all remember that game you played when a kid, where somebody'd put an object in a bag or a box, and you had to guess what it was by feeling it, right?

Now, if I had several bags, I could combine this with "alphabet" and... well, it'd be fun.

(I also want to make a book, but that can wait.)

So, please - post away! Any sort of object that could be stored in a bag and that feels nice and distinct and that starts with a letter (nothing unnamed, thanks :P) would be great. Especially I. I have no I. And O. My O (oval things?) sucks.

I have a list already, but I left it at Jenn's. I'll see if I can reconstruct it.

Edit: Other letters are good too. And the "double letter sounds" sh, ch, and th. Just because.

Comments

[adiva_calandia]

A toy Igloo?

And how about an Octopus?

*likes this idea*

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

No oranges or ice cubes?

[conuly]

An orange can work (it's the only thing I came up with, in fact, other than oval), but ice cubes melt too quickly.

[phoenixdreaming.livejournal.com]

Orange! And hm. Is there any way to put ice into a bag without it melting? It's hard to think of things for those letters, indeed, and the simple lists of English words and picturable English words on Wikipedia didn't give anything extra.

[failstoexist.livejournal.com]

you could get some toys....maybe plastic octopus and iguana? or a stuffed one, or any other sort of thing.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

i = ice cream cone, iguana (plastic), ivy (plastic), iron,
o = orange, orangatang, octopus, octogon (stop sign?)

[thren0dy.livejournal.com]

You've stumped me. Orange, sure, but "I"?

No clue. Sorry, that wasn't very helpful. :D

[velvetchamber.livejournal.com]

Insect (plastic), ink-pot?

...plastic ice cream cone?

[rho]

Inkwell? Idol? Icecube tray? Ingot? Instrument?

Octagon? Olive? Onion?

[conuly]

Yeah... most of those she doesn't know. And I don't want to stump her, I want her to learn her letters.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

She knows onion! And iron is good for I too.

[kittn.livejournal.com]

hmm tough one.
I - inch worm,icicle(plastic ones from a tree) ink (a small bottle)igloo, insect,island... i don't know
O - orange,oval,one,octopus,oven,oak leaf, ornament... hth

[shenya.livejournal.com]

thimble

shoe, shoe-lace

chicken (little easter novelty toy?)

[leora.livejournal.com]

Idiot... but fitting one of ~those~ LJ users into your bag might be tough.

Well, the others already stated my ideas.

[conuly]

*giggles*

I-deas

[dr-graffenberg.livejournal.com]

since there arent too many nouns that you can really use for that purpose that begin with "i" maybe you can somehow integrate the word imagination. perhaps put nothing in the bag, or something that she cant identify and when she tells you "i dont know" you can respond with "use your imagination" and then inform her that imagination begins with "i".

its not too likely that she would know incense by its feel, and iguana is more known as lizard at that age as well as insect is known as bug and infant as baby. if she has a doll with a pair of removable ice skates that would work. if not youll definitely have to be creative on that one.

or if you go with the empty bag and dont like imagination you could go with invisible or just plain old inside since shes feeling the inside of the bag. just a few ideas.

Re: I-deas

[conuly]

Surprisingly enough, I think "imagination" is a great idea here. And yes, I already was going "ehhhh" in iguana and infant and insect for that exact same reason. The point isn't to show how clever I am, or even to increase her vocabulary, it's to help teach her the alphabet.

Much though I disagree with you on certain other things (and, honestly, that whole conversation really pissed me off, if you didn't guess by my last comment I just posted), that's a really good idea. *hands you a gold star*

You win!!!!

[dr-graffenberg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm just going to give up on our other conversation altogether. And i will give you the satisfaction of telling you that you're absolutely right on that last comment you left. The first part more so than the second since I was directing everything towards the other mothers and not her, but technically you win all around on that one.
I left her a comment for herself this evening, though still not taking into account your first point in your last comment . As for the first part though, check out her interests. I think you're right on that one. Feel free to delete this post after you read it since it doesnt pertain to your journal at all.

Oh, and I'm glad that I could help.

P.S. Oooh, oooh look. He used proper grammar in this comment. Ha ha

Re: You win!!!!

[conuly]

*snickers*

I'm actually anti-prescriptivist, but I was *really* upset. And, honestly, people *will* judge you on that. It's stupid of them, whether you're right or wrong, but they do.

Re: You win!!!!

[dr-graffenberg.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, by the anti-prescriptivist (which by the way, thank you for making me learn a word that I'm ashamed to say I didn't know) remark are you referring to my improper usage of English grammar or the whole "mommy should take care of the kid" thing which contrary to what I may have led you to believe by the things that I wrote I dont personally agree with. I did everything when me and the ex were together and i do even more now so I'm definitely not one to agree with that concept, though I may have seem to indicate that I do.

Interesting though that both of those things can apply to the word prescriptive. It "was" traditional belief that the mother should raise the kid but times have definitely changed for the better in that regard. And proper use of English grammar could be considered prescriptive as well.

But either way if I was to believe in the "mommy should..." belief or if I was to (or more appropriately "do") use English grammar wrong it wouldn't be a matter of right or wrong. I'd be wrong on either account.

Heh, I bet you"re really getting sick of my babbling by now. You can tell me to shut up. I'll listen. Or you can go the other way and add me as a friend and we can have future conversations that will hopefully not involve arguing. But whichever you choose I hope that you have a great night, I wish you luck with you're clever little learning project, and im sorry that I've upset you.

P.S. Damn, it's hard to remember to capitalize all those I's.

Re: You win!!!!

[conuly]

My feeling is that language changes. I might not like every change, but language is dictated by use, not by arbitrary rules.

You can hang out at my journal if you like, but right now I'm slow on adding friends. I'm trying to keep my list from getting too big again.

Re: You win!!!!

[dr-graffenberg.livejournal.com]

Very true. Take "irregardless" for instance. The word doesn't make any sense at all. "regardless"is basically used to mean "without regard" yet people often add the "ir" prefix to it which is basically accomplishing the same thing as the "less" suffix. This make believe improper word has been used so frequently by so many people that it has actually found a home in the dictionary. So yes, language indeed does change and in that instance there I certainly don't like it.

And I added you as a friend because I like the things that you have to say. In the process i noticed the massive size of your friends list and so will definitely not take offense if I'm not added back. How do you manage to keep up with reading that many friends and communities...

Yeah, I may have decided to use proper grammar with you but you certainly aren't going to get a question mark out of me.

[adiva_calandia]

A toy Igloo?

And how about an Octopus?

*likes this idea*

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

No oranges or ice cubes?

[conuly]

An orange can work (it's the only thing I came up with, in fact, other than oval), but ice cubes melt too quickly.

[phoenixdreaming.livejournal.com]

Orange! And hm. Is there any way to put ice into a bag without it melting? It's hard to think of things for those letters, indeed, and the simple lists of English words and picturable English words on Wikipedia didn't give anything extra.

[failstoexist.livejournal.com]

you could get some toys....maybe plastic octopus and iguana? or a stuffed one, or any other sort of thing.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

i = ice cream cone, iguana (plastic), ivy (plastic), iron,
o = orange, orangatang, octopus, octogon (stop sign?)

[thren0dy.livejournal.com]

You've stumped me. Orange, sure, but "I"?

No clue. Sorry, that wasn't very helpful. :D

[velvetchamber.livejournal.com]

Insect (plastic), ink-pot?

...plastic ice cream cone?

[rho]

Inkwell? Idol? Icecube tray? Ingot? Instrument?

Octagon? Olive? Onion?

[conuly]

Yeah... most of those she doesn't know. And I don't want to stump her, I want her to learn her letters.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

She knows onion! And iron is good for I too.

[kittn.livejournal.com]

hmm tough one.
I - inch worm,icicle(plastic ones from a tree) ink (a small bottle)igloo, insect,island... i don't know
O - orange,oval,one,octopus,oven,oak leaf, ornament... hth

[shenya.livejournal.com]

thimble

shoe, shoe-lace

chicken (little easter novelty toy?)

[leora.livejournal.com]

Idiot... but fitting one of ~those~ LJ users into your bag might be tough.

Well, the others already stated my ideas.

[conuly]

*giggles*

I-deas

[(Anonymous)]

since there arent too many nouns that you can really use for that purpose that begin with "i" maybe you can somehow integrate the word imagination. perhaps put nothing in the bag, or something that she cant identify and when she tells you "i dont know" you can respond with "use your imagination" and then inform her that imagination begins with "i".

its not too likely that she would know incense by its feel, and iguana is more known as lizard at that age as well as insect is known as bug and infant as baby. if she has a doll with a pair of removable ice skates that would work. if not youll definitely have to be creative on that one.

or if you go with the empty bag and dont like imagination you could go with invisible or just plain old inside since shes feeling the inside of the bag. just a few ideas.

Re: I-deas

[conuly]

Surprisingly enough, I think "imagination" is a great idea here. And yes, I already was going "ehhhh" in iguana and infant and insect for that exact same reason. The point isn't to show how clever I am, or even to increase her vocabulary, it's to help teach her the alphabet.

Much though I disagree with you on certain other things (and, honestly, that whole conversation really pissed me off, if you didn't guess by my last comment I just posted), that's a really good idea. *hands you a gold star*

You win!!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm just going to give up on our other conversation altogether. And i will give you the satisfaction of telling you that you're absolutely right on that last comment you left. The first part more so than the second since I was directing everything towards the other mothers and not her, but technically you win all around on that one.
I left her a comment for herself this evening, though still not taking into account your first point in your last comment . As for the first part though, check out her interests. I think you're right on that one. Feel free to delete this post after you read it since it doesnt pertain to your journal at all.

Oh, and I'm glad that I could help.

P.S. Oooh, oooh look. He used proper grammar in this comment. Ha ha

Re: You win!!!!

[conuly]

*snickers*

I'm actually anti-prescriptivist, but I was *really* upset. And, honestly, people *will* judge you on that. It's stupid of them, whether you're right or wrong, but they do.

Re: You win!!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Hmmm, by the anti-prescriptivist (which by the way, thank you for making me learn a word that I'm ashamed to say I didn't know) remark are you referring to my improper usage of English grammar or the whole "mommy should take care of the kid" thing which contrary to what I may have led you to believe by the things that I wrote I dont personally agree with. I did everything when me and the ex were together and i do even more now so I'm definitely not one to agree with that concept, though I may have seem to indicate that I do.

Interesting though that both of those things can apply to the word prescriptive. It "was" traditional belief that the mother should raise the kid but times have definitely changed for the better in that regard. And proper use of English grammar could be considered prescriptive as well.

But either way if I was to believe in the "mommy should..." belief or if I was to (or more appropriately "do") use English grammar wrong it wouldn't be a matter of right or wrong. I'd be wrong on either account.

Heh, I bet you"re really getting sick of my babbling by now. You can tell me to shut up. I'll listen. Or you can go the other way and add me as a friend and we can have future conversations that will hopefully not involve arguing. But whichever you choose I hope that you have a great night, I wish you luck with you're clever little learning project, and im sorry that I've upset you.

P.S. Damn, it's hard to remember to capitalize all those I's.

Re: You win!!!!

[conuly]

My feeling is that language changes. I might not like every change, but language is dictated by use, not by arbitrary rules.

You can hang out at my journal if you like, but right now I'm slow on adding friends. I'm trying to keep my list from getting too big again.

Re: You win!!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Very true. Take "irregardless" for instance. The word doesn't make any sense at all. "regardless"is basically used to mean "without regard" yet people often add the "ir" prefix to it which is basically accomplishing the same thing as the "less" suffix. This make believe improper word has been used so frequently by so many people that it has actually found a home in the dictionary. So yes, language indeed does change and in that instance there I certainly don't like it.

And I added you as a friend because I like the things that you have to say. In the process i noticed the massive size of your friends list and so will definitely not take offense if I'm not added back. How do you manage to keep up with reading that many friends and communities...

Yeah, I may have decided to use proper grammar with you but you certainly aren't going to get a question mark out of me.