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Mostly Justin and a few cuss words too
Jun. 10th, 2007 04:31 pmJustin found a tiny dead snake on our driveway. Wicked cool. He's going to dry it out over the next few days, so we can keep it.
Don't know if I've mentioned this before, but Justin loves inventing words, and has been making them up since babyhood. It's highly annoying most of the time, because I can't keep track of all his made up words and refuse to even try, so whenever he tells me a new word he's made up for something (eg "I'm going to call milk 'prellor' from now on") I'm generally very unenthusiastic ("You can go ahead and do that, but if you ask me for prellor I'm going to ignore you, so you may as well use 'milk' instead.")
I feel bad for being such a killjoy about this because it feels like I'm trying to suppress part of his individuality (probably because I am) but OTOH I can't see encouraging this past-time as a good thing. Maybe if he were making up words for things that don't have a word, like the two little lines/soft ridges that come down from your nose to the top of your lips, it might be. But he tries to redefine common words and ends up just being confusing.
Anyway, he made up a new word several months ago that I haven't discouraged, and that I'm even considering adopting. It's "crut," a general-purpose swear word. I don't know if he designed it like this on purpose, but I really like the fact that crut has the "cr" from crap, the "uh" from fuck, and the "t" from shit. It's short and sounds satisfyingly cuss-like, but totally isn't.
Any opinions?
Don't know if I've mentioned this before, but Justin loves inventing words, and has been making them up since babyhood. It's highly annoying most of the time, because I can't keep track of all his made up words and refuse to even try, so whenever he tells me a new word he's made up for something (eg "I'm going to call milk 'prellor' from now on") I'm generally very unenthusiastic ("You can go ahead and do that, but if you ask me for prellor I'm going to ignore you, so you may as well use 'milk' instead.")
I feel bad for being such a killjoy about this because it feels like I'm trying to suppress part of his individuality (probably because I am) but OTOH I can't see encouraging this past-time as a good thing. Maybe if he were making up words for things that don't have a word, like the two little lines/soft ridges that come down from your nose to the top of your lips, it might be. But he tries to redefine common words and ends up just being confusing.
Anyway, he made up a new word several months ago that I haven't discouraged, and that I'm even considering adopting. It's "crut," a general-purpose swear word. I don't know if he designed it like this on purpose, but I really like the fact that crut has the "cr" from crap, the "uh" from fuck, and the "t" from shit. It's short and sounds satisfyingly cuss-like, but totally isn't.
Any opinions?
