Link from moggymania

Another set of kids playing the Super Mario songs in a talent show. Too cool. Video quality kinda sucks, though - better if you make your browser window smaller.

Hanged/hung

So, like I said, we visited today. I spent a lot of time with Deniz.

At one point, she takes out one of her little stuffed animals, a keychain stuffed animal, and hangs it up, and then promptly turns to me and announces that "Now I've hanged her!"

*winces*

Normally, an irregular verb like this, I'd've ignored it. Kid won't be talking like that forever, after all. But this is really a little morbid, saying you've hanged your doll.

So I correct her - not hanged, hung, always hung.

Except that's not really true. So I start trying to explain...

"Y'see, sweetie, if you hang your doll, and then she dies, you can say you've hanged her. But if you hang your doll, and she's still alive, she doesn't die, then you say you hung her. You understand?"

Even as I said it, I knew this was one of the sillier things I've done, but I couldn't stop myself. I know I was talking over her head, I know it's hardly a distinction she'll have a chance to use often in her life, I know it's a distinction many people simply don't make, but I just had to keep talking!

I'm a failure as a budding descriptivist. And a baby-sitter.

AAAARRRRGGGGHHH!

My god! You just can't get away from this sort of silliness!

So I leave autism's insane discussion. It's not profitable to hang around there anymore. Losing my soul, I was!

And I meander over to brits_americans to visit the Thanksgiving discussion. And it's there! Again! GAH!

Sometimes, I could just scream. The universe is most assuredly out to get me.

Today's haiku

Waiting for the heat
Darker, colder, in and out
And still I'm not warm

*taps foot impatiently*

Put my whole *day* on hold for the fuel guys to get here, and... nuthin'.

It's not that bad. Under my three blankets, one quilt, five sheets, two layers of pants, and three layers of shirts. And the electric heater on.