Every time we drive by a certain house on the way home from preschool, the kids swear they see a giraffe ("ziraf"). We took a different route today, but again M looked out the window at one of the houses and yelled "Ziraf!"
I mumbled something like, "Really? I didn't think we had any around here."
He continued talking and finally said two words I could make sense of: "Ziraf myatch."
"Giraffe ball?" I asked.
"Da!"
I drove by another house and pointed. "Do you mean that? A basketball net?"
"Da!"
This is the first English word either of them has invented.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
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Debbie,
That is so cool! Giraffe ball! They will love the zoo.....
WKB
cool that they made up a fun word!
wkb
That's funny! They must not have ever known the Russian word for it (баскетбол, which sounds just like "basketball" with a Russian accent). I was thinking maybe they'd just done a literal translation, but I looked it up in Russian, and they definitely made it up.
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