Saturday 25 April 2009

The Linguistics Lesson for the Day...

A lovely day in the park.  Zeva is making rings out of grass shards, I am making a flag out of a stick, Victoria is rambling about how this hole we found in the ground is a secret portal to another world, but we can't fit through it, and a bird is chirp-chirpin away at an imaginary foe.  


"That bird sounds awful disgruntled," I say.

"That's the truth."

"Disgruntled.  What does that even mean?  I mean, does that mean you can be gruntled?"  this last comment comes from Victoria.


"Of course you can be gruntled." - this from me.

"But if disgruntled is a bad thing, does that make gruntled a good thing?"

"Ya."

"How is gruntled a good thing?"


"Well, if you're disgruntled, that means you're so upset that all the grunts are coming out of you - you are, as it were, dislodging the grunts from within."


"And if you're gruntled?"


"You're not angry, so all your grunts stay inside of you."


Oh.

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