On our way down to work, school, daycare this morning we had a discussion.
Lily: "Mommy, damn is not a bad word"
Kerri: "Yes, damn is a bad word, you should choose darn instead"
Landree: "Damn isn't a bad word, like Hoover Dam"
Kerri: "Well, d-a-m-n is a bad word, d-a-m is not"
I'm glad my girls had their thinking caps on. How do you reason with this? I would say damn is a word I don't want the girls saying regularly. I remember when Landree was little Al and I used "damn it" a lot. It was one of her first phrases she said. When she would drop a toy "damn it". We laughed then discouraged it. Now how do you explain to a 4 and 6 year old the differences and why we shouldn't use the d-a-m-n version. Crazy English language...
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Sorry to say it will get worse.
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in
eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that
quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. GOOD LUCK.
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