Sun 7 Feb 2010
I was feeding Nora lunch today when I dropped a piece of cheese on the floor and totally, accidentally said “Oh fuck.” Accidentally, guys.
And then Nora, very happily said “Fuh.” She said it. Fuh. And I knew exactly what she meant.
So we begin a new era.
February 8th, 2010 at 7:21 am
“Damn you vile woman!”
February 8th, 2010 at 11:47 am
you will be damned for this.
February 8th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
awesome.
February 9th, 2010 at 3:53 am
Annalaan COULD, I put great weight on “COULD,” PROBABLY have sweared like a drunken sailor by four. What’s funny is as she goes on 10, she doesn’t do it at all around grownups (I can’t speak about around her peer group, completely, but there is no, NO, evidence of it around them other than once), but I know she has it in her arsenal. It’s like the super bug of swearing gestating. So I have gotten more and more careful over the years to not use it; hence, possibly, giving her some BatSignal that she can let it out of the cave at a moment’s notice.
We have had ONE “fuck” and that was when she turned to a kid who blind-sided her in a soccer game; she turned, indignent and po’d, and YELLED, “What the fuck was that for?” I felt proud. Her grammar and usage was on par with anything you would hope for in a nine-year-old swearer. But that is the only time I’ve ever heard her swear or any report of swearing.
February 9th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
That’s why I say Fudgical Sticks. And Holy Moly Mother of God which is pretty funny coming out of a 5 yr olds mouth. He did shout out Jesus a few times but knew that was wrong. My Mother would say that is the worst of all.
February 9th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
It was bound to happen sometime. Good thing you got it out of the way before I had a chance to say it in front of her. (Remember that time when I first met Miriam…Everyone from the lab was outside of Lucy’s and I dropped the f-bomb like a million times before I even sat down?)
February 10th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Brings back memories!
Maybe you could pick up some Rhyming Slang, used in England and Australia. Slang for stairs is “apples & pears”, for instance. Here is a link: http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/
For the word you said, the slang is “Aylsebury Duck”.
February 11th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
I am so non-Jewish it’s funny…but I thought of this post at a kid’s basketball game last night. A coach yelled, YELLED, “Quit FUTZING around with the ball!”
Cracked me up. My fellow very non-Jewish people in the gym, and there must have been 300 (two big games happening side by side), didn’t even blink.
But we got home after the game and Annalaan asked, “So ‘futz’ means something like I think it means, right?” Yes. “And nobody gets it?” Didn’t sound like it. “That’s a good one,” she said.