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Speech and hypercorrection
Mar. 18th, 2011 01:05 pm
Evangeline has one really cute grammatical quirk, and I'll see if I can describe it.
When she means to say things like "Give it to me" she always, invariably, says "Give me it!"
This isn't wrong exactly - "Give me the book" or "Give me Baby Jill" sound just fine - but it's certainly not the way any of us would normally say it.
BREAKING NEWS: There are two small birds outside my window. Can't get a good picture. They're about the size of my fist, gray-brown all over but fading into an orangey-red on their heads. Beaks are not any bright color. What are they?
END NEWS.
She uses this format for other sentences other than "Give me it!" but for the life of me I can't think of any specific examples. The whined "Give me it!" is too much a part of my life right now!
Ana also has a quirk at the moment. Sometimes, as we all do, she carefully will e nun ciate to make sure she is heard. For example, she'll say things like "That is BET TER!" making sure that you cannot possibly confuse it for "bedder". However, she can't spell (well, not well, anyway) so in her quest to Speak Correctly she'll often replace actual ds with ts when doing so - "She is LOU TER THAN ME!" No, Ana, she's not.
Oh well, she'll get there too.
When she means to say things like "Give it to me" she always, invariably, says "Give me it!"
This isn't wrong exactly - "Give me the book" or "Give me Baby Jill" sound just fine - but it's certainly not the way any of us would normally say it.
BREAKING NEWS: There are two small birds outside my window. Can't get a good picture. They're about the size of my fist, gray-brown all over but fading into an orangey-red on their heads. Beaks are not any bright color. What are they?
END NEWS.
She uses this format for other sentences other than "Give me it!" but for the life of me I can't think of any specific examples. The whined "Give me it!" is too much a part of my life right now!
Ana also has a quirk at the moment. Sometimes, as we all do, she carefully will e nun ciate to make sure she is heard. For example, she'll say things like "That is BET TER!" making sure that you cannot possibly confuse it for "bedder". However, she can't spell (well, not well, anyway) so in her quest to Speak Correctly she'll often replace actual ds with ts when doing so - "She is LOU TER THAN ME!" No, Ana, she's not.
Oh well, she'll get there too.
