[Ads-l] RES: Language and children; flee/flea.
David Daniel
dad at COARSECOURSES.COM
Sat Apr 2 23:41:36 UTC 2016
2008? I have a hard time remembering what I did yesterday. However, I
suspect I just ran across the joke somewhere. If you Google the
exchange/joke there are a number of instances of it out there, and I doubt
that I started them. Sorry I can't be more help.
DAD
Sender: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Poster: "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at MST.EDU>
Subject: Language and children; flee/flea. Was: Antedating of Flea
Market
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I've been collecting information on children's language, including
children's misperceptions of adult speech. In this regard, I
noticed David Daniel's 2008 message below, in which a child
humorously mistook the verb "flee" to be the noun "flea."
Might I now ask David: Does he have first-hand knowledge
of this humorous incident? (Did he hear it himself? Was it told
about a child of one of his friends or relatives?) Or was it
perhaps a fabricated bit of humor that can't reliably be judged
to have actually occurred?
Gerald Cohen
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Original message to American Dialect Society on behalf of David A. Daniel
(dad at POKERWIZ.COM<mailto:dad at POKERWIZ.COM>)
Sent: Wed 7/9/2008 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: Antedating of Flea Market
Sunday school teacher, reading Bible passage: "The man named Lot was warned
to take his wife and flee out of the city but his wife looked back and was
turned to salt."
Concerned four-year-old: "What happened to the flea?"
DAD
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