fun things kids say as first class attention grabbers

[Elena Nicoladis]

My 3.5 French-English bilingual daughter announced one day (in English), "I
have a spicy bum!"

Took us hours to figure out that she meant that she meant that she had an
itchy bum (spicy = piquant (Fr); piquer (Fr) = to itch).

Elena


On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Roberta Golinkoff <Roberta at udel.edu> wrote:

> Great idea! Will you please share when you collect these?
>
> My grandchild looked down his mom's shirt at her cleavage and said, "That
> a butt?" He had a gap that needed filling...
>
> Best, Roberta
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Bruno <brunilda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I like to use attention grabbers the first day of class in my language
>> acquisition courses. I usually mention the fis phenomenon, McNeill and
>> Braine on negative evidence, and some fun errors (for example from Erika
>> Hoff's and Eve Clark's books, with attribution). Students laugh and become
>> really interested in figuring out why kids say the darnedest things.
>> I was wondering if somebody can share examples that can be used this way
>> or if people have some favorite ones they use.
>> Thanks all.
>>
>> Bruno
>> Bruno Estigarribia
>> Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and
>> Literatures
>> Research Assistant Professor of Psychology, Cognitive Science Program
>> Affiliate Faculty, Global Studies
>> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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-- 
Elena Nicoladis

"Since all the sciences, and especially psychology, are still immersed in
such tremendous realms of the uncertain and the unknown, the best that any
individual scientist, especially any psychologist, can do seems to be to
follow his own gleam and his own bent, however inadequate they may be. In
fact, I suppose that actually this is what we all do. In the end, the only
sure criterion is to have fun."
Edward Tolman

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