<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">My son is now 41. You may know his two cable TV series 'Foodjammers' on the Food Network (and various others around the world) and 'Invention Nation which ran on Discovery Science a few years ago. His mother is French. I'm American (and he had the very good fortune to be born in Canada when I was in medical school).</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">A few very brief anecdotes:</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">During a conversation when Micah was four, I asked him something in English and he replied "Ouipe!"</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">"What is 'ouipe'" I asked.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">"Well, papa," he said. "in English, you can say 'yes' or 'yep', so in French you can say 'oui' or 'ouipe.'"</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">About the same time, Micah asked me if he could do something and I replied "You bet," meaning "yes, of course."</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">"I AM NOT!" he replied, indignant. Because we mixed French and English a lot, he had interpreted what I said as a mixed version of 'tu es bête' [you're stupid].</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">When I taught high school French over 40 years ago, I had my French II class write one-lilne TV ads or announcements. Many were of the "Les forêt feux empêchent les ours" (forest fires prevent bears).</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>- - -<br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>Denis M. Donovan, M.D., M.Ed., F.A.P.S.<br>Director, EOCT Institute<br><br>Medical Director, 1983 - 2006<br>The Children's Center for Developmental Psychiatry<br>St. Petersburg, Florida<br><br>P.O Box 47576<br>St. Petersburg, FL 33743-7576<br>Phone:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>727-641-8905<br><a href="mailto:DenisDonovan@EOCT-Institute.org">DenisDonovan@EOCT-Institute.org</a></div><div><a href="mailto:dmdonovan1937@gmail.com">dmdonovan1937@gmail.com</a></div></span>
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