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So, remember this post, wherein Evangeline twice used the construction "name is called"?
Today, I heard Ana spontaneously say that as well while she and Evangeline were playing pretend. Evangeline pretended she didn't know her, and she replied "My name is called..." (which is very strange, because in real life I can't get either one of them to a. ask names or b. share their own names, not for love or money). She wasn't there when Evangeline said it that time, and I haven't heard Evangeline say it since (though she might have out of earshot).
So...
1. One of them is cribbing off the other?
2. Or there's another person they're copying?
3. Or this is actually becoming a much more common turn of phrase than I'd realized, and it's more widespread than any of us could've imagined?
4. Or they both misunderstood the normal rules for giving somebody's name in the same way?
Edit: I don't want to make a new post, so read this edit. Evangeline is in the habit of referring to the act of turning something right-side out as "insiding it out". I don't really pay it much attention, but today she made a really long sentence with that phrase that struck my fancy: I can't come now, wait, because I'm insiding the sleeve on my jacket out right now. Even if I were inclined to say "insiding out" I think I'd say "I'm insiding out my jacket sleeve" instead just to keep that verb more together.
Today, I heard Ana spontaneously say that as well while she and Evangeline were playing pretend. Evangeline pretended she didn't know her, and she replied "My name is called..." (which is very strange, because in real life I can't get either one of them to a. ask names or b. share their own names, not for love or money). She wasn't there when Evangeline said it that time, and I haven't heard Evangeline say it since (though she might have out of earshot).
So...
1. One of them is cribbing off the other?
2. Or there's another person they're copying?
3. Or this is actually becoming a much more common turn of phrase than I'd realized, and it's more widespread than any of us could've imagined?
4. Or they both misunderstood the normal rules for giving somebody's name in the same way?
Edit: I don't want to make a new post, so read this edit. Evangeline is in the habit of referring to the act of turning something right-side out as "insiding it out". I don't really pay it much attention, but today she made a really long sentence with that phrase that struck my fancy: I can't come now, wait, because I'm insiding the sleeve on my jacket out right now. Even if I were inclined to say "insiding out" I think I'd say "I'm insiding out my jacket sleeve" instead just to keep that verb more together.
