My young son (now 23) when asked what language they spoke in Turkey, stated most seriously "Gobblish" (gobble, gobble)
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the reflection at the bottom of cup of liquid was a crocodile waiting to gobble me up.— Aaron
- I used to believe that if I spoke with whatever accent a language was in, I was speaking that language...— Renae
- I used to believe that the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon
- I used to belive that african was the language they spoke in all of africa— quark
- I used to think that adults spoke an entirely different language (not English) when kids weren't around. — Swordfish
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon