When I was 6 yrs old my parents bought me "Muzzy in Gondoland", English-teaching book for children . There was a glossary at the end of book, one of terms was exactly "Gondoland", translated as "Gondolandia" and with explanation in brackets "(imagined realm)" Of course it meant Gondoland was only imagined and didn't exist in real, but I thought, since I already knew what does "land" mean, that in English "gond" means something like "to imagine" :)
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I thought my imaginary friend was real and he imagined me
I hope he still believes I existAnon - I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen
- I used to believe that foreigners' ears translated English words to their own languageAnon
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I used to think everyone in the world knew and thought in English, but choose to speak different languages. Anon
- I used to believe that english was the only real language and all the others were just made up after.Anon