Comments on: Mind Your Language!

By: (Gettin’) Down with Skool | Motherhood: The Final Frontier

(Gettin’) Down with Skool | Motherhood: The Final Frontier — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:13:45 +0000

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By: Caroline

Caroline — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:38:10 +0000

I bought the card in Kohls. They have more if you want me to procure.

By: Coding Mamma (Tasha)

Coding Mamma (Tasha) — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:40:22 +0000

A friend of mine, when visiting the US, was once asked ‘What language do they speak in Europe?’.

There are some things that really annoy me, such as misplaced apostrophes but, these days, I tend more towards the functional linguistic side – every knows what 10 items or less means, so it’s not doing much harm. (Don’t shoot me, please!)

By: Almost American

Almost American — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:55:21 +0000

Recently my response to the “Where are you from?” questions has been “Well, actually I’ve lived most of my life in the United States” at which point I pause and enjoy the look of confusion cross their faces

By: Mothership

Mothership — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:13:19 +0000

Gstatejester: I am glad I don’t have a TV. That show would actually kill me.

Jessica: Your husband may have a point.. However I know for a fact that you are American (as are your parents) and you all speak beautifully.

Caroline: Where can I buy that card?!?!?!

Thanks for the kind words, Millennium Housewife, I have just been reading your latest.

As for how I feel about my offspring having a different accent from me; One mainly shrieks in non-denominational high decibel lingua franca (see recent post) Four, oddly, has quite an English accent which she must have acquired from me although she has bits and bobs of Cali in her from preschool. She has started to say “I’m, like, so excited to go to the park” etc. I’m sure by Kindergarten it will be all over and I’ll have a like, totally stoked and awesome, dude kid on my hands. AGHHH!

Our house here is much closer to a mud hut than the one we left behind in London, nixdminx.

By: nixdminx

nixdminx — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:04:21 +0000

so funny, I was once asked if all the people in England live around Buckingham Palace in mud huts…only in LA…!

By: A Modern Mother

A Modern Mother — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:54:15 +0000

Too funny.

So how do you like them having a different accent than yours? Hate it, I suspect, though a California accent can be quite cool.

By: Millennium Housewife

Millennium Housewife — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:02:06 +0000

Excellent LOL post!

By: Best British Mummy Bloggers in the World Ever

Best British Mummy Bloggers in the World Ever — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:03:56 +0000

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By: Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:46:46 +0000

I feel your pain! Sometimes I feel that one more comment on my accent and I’ll scream. Such comments are always followed up with a) how did you end up here (husband) and b) how did you meet? I can still hardly believe that one’s accent should give complete strangers the right to ask such personal questions. (I’m toying with “Piss off. None of your business.” I’d actually love to think I was that brave!).

But I digress. Appalling (yet very funny) that the store clerk would actually think it’s a different language. It reminds me of the birthday card I sent my boss last week. It had a picture of an English bulldog on the front saying Happy Birthday! Or as they say in England (open card) Happy Birthday! (It’s the same language you know).

He and I occasionally have verbal, language related misunderstandings so he probably thought it funnier than the average passer-by. Or Safeway store clerk.