1. You guys all suck.

[conuly]

So you don't want DW accounts, I can see that, but you could've entertained me anyway. I leave the house bored, I come home and it's still boring here!

2. Evangeline is in that age - hold on, let me interrupt you for an Important Bulletin:

Evangeline: Girls go to dance class, boys go to... work. I don't want to be a boy!

This has been an up-to-the-second update on what Evangeline is thinking! Stay tuned for more quotes

-back to what I was saying, she's at that age where every verb, every noun is regularized. One foot, two foots. I do, I doed. I bring, I bringed. Perfectly normal - and it's a step *up* from rote memorization, no matter how it sounds.

Lately, instead of saying "I b'inged this" like she had been, she's started saying "I b'ung it". So she's caught on to the fact that it's a weird formation, but she's still using a more regular form instead of the standard brought (or b'ought, I guess). And yes, I know brung is normal in some dialects.

3. She has some trouble with prepositions. Not literal ones like "Go up" and "Fall down" and "Put in" but the more metaphorical ones - "Is that cooled up yet?", "Slow up!" (I know some people say that. Nobody I know IRL), that sort of thing.

4. In the past few days she has finally - finally - begun making her s-blends. Sometimes. So sometimes it's swim instead of fim, and sting instead of ting. Not all the time, though, and it's clear she's working on it - she'll go ssssss - ting! very carefully.

Comments

Re: You guys all suck

[cesy]

She sounds very cute.

Re: You guys all suck

[conuly]

She's cuter in person :)

(Well, when she's not being three, that is. She bypassed the terrible twos entirely, and she even got halfway through the therrible threes (three is worse than two, always, ask anybody), but last month she realized she was missing out on being a Madame Crankypants and has been trying it out from time to time.)

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, overregularization. Hallmark of human linguistics :)

[conuly]

Except this is a subset of overregularization. She's exchanged the most common tense marker, -ed, which she had been using, for a pretty rare tense marker involving changing the vowel.

She's still wrong, but she's significantly less wrong.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

I know! Isn't cognitive development awesome?!

[conuly]

Did I meet you in the book finding comm? Go spam me with any kidlit chapter books you remember! Now, my minion, now!

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

yes, you did. Or rather, I spotted you there and came over here to pester you because you seemed cool :)

...um, narrow down your request, please. Chapter books for what age, in what genre, etc. I own hundreds and I've read more than 5 of them just this month. You will also find periodic reviews of them in my journal, under the tag of "books" and possibly "kids books" or "juvenile literature" when I remember to add more specific tags.

[conuly]

Any age, any genre!

I just want to list all the chapter books (for kids) I read. Aaaaaand... I can't remember them all :( But I figure the more people I have naming books for me, the more reminders I'll get of books I've read, right?

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

*blink blink* I don't even know where to start!

Actually, I've been meaning to do a similar project myself, making a database of all the books I've ever read. But I haven't had the time. And I'm sure I've forgotten many, too.

Here's an idea: I'll start working on my list, and we can regularly trade lists and see if either of us can remind the other of any books. Would that work for you?

I was planning to make my list a spreadsheet so that I could sort the books by author or title. Eventually, I also hope to put in brief summaries or reviews of them all... although I really shouldn't bother. (People with little free time should not be allowed to have OCD).

[conuly]

That's terrific. I've got an entry I posted, scroll up or down to see it.