Wednesday

Language Lesson

The English language has the "understood 'you'" that makes the following sentences complete:

Meet my friend!
Take out the trash.
Come here.

Pre-teen language has the "understood 'duh'" that makes the following sentences complete:

I know!
I already did.
You said that.

Tone of voice is generally the biggest indicator in using the understood 'duh'.

3 comments:

Roxanne said...

Okay. . .you got me. . .I am chuckling and must share that far and wide. Too funny.

R--

Anne said...

If you can just imagine for a minute...Natalie's new phrase when she is getting a lecture is, in her sassy 3 year old voice, "Why are we talking about this?"

Anonymous said...

hahahaha...my kids have yet to reach the age to use the "duh" word, thank goodness! Lord give me strength when those days come! And Anne...I can just SEE Natalee saying that, that is hilarious!!!