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"I amn't going! I... I... I'm not going!"
That's right. She spontaneously invented the word amn't. Definitely wasn't an ain't (don't bother me about ain't right now), and I know I'm the only one who'd be using a word like amn't around the kid, and I haven't.
Ana is so cool sometimes!
She also goes around insisting she can speak Spanish, and making up Spanish words to prove it. Funny thing is, if I didn't know those words weren't Spanish, they'd actually sound like authentic Spanish words. Somehow, she's managed to pick up on Spanish phonology after pretty limited exposure to the language. (Well, I *have* finally watched a few episodes of Diego with her. My God that show is irritating, and very condescending. But it's more tolerable now that Ana's caught on to my little game of deliberately giving very wrong answers to questions (Diego: Does this fish live in the ocean or the desert? Me and Ana: THE DESERT!!!!!!! Diego: That's right! The ocean! Me and Ana: Oh, man!), which alleviates the pain somewhat. And we *do* do Spanish once a week, but until recently she's refused to participate in anything that actually involved Spanish.)
That's right. She spontaneously invented the word amn't. Definitely wasn't an ain't (don't bother me about ain't right now), and I know I'm the only one who'd be using a word like amn't around the kid, and I haven't.
Ana is so cool sometimes!
She also goes around insisting she can speak Spanish, and making up Spanish words to prove it. Funny thing is, if I didn't know those words weren't Spanish, they'd actually sound like authentic Spanish words. Somehow, she's managed to pick up on Spanish phonology after pretty limited exposure to the language. (Well, I *have* finally watched a few episodes of Diego with her. My God that show is irritating, and very condescending. But it's more tolerable now that Ana's caught on to my little game of deliberately giving very wrong answers to questions (Diego: Does this fish live in the ocean or the desert? Me and Ana: THE DESERT!!!!!!! Diego: That's right! The ocean! Me and Ana: Oh, man!), which alleviates the pain somewhat. And we *do* do Spanish once a week, but until recently she's refused to participate in anything that actually involved Spanish.)
