I used to think there was one "fundamental language", and English couldn't be it because of the strange grammar and stuff (and I don't know how to speak any language other than English!)
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon
- I used to believe that english was the only real language and all the others were just made up after.Anon
- I used to believe that "elemeno P" was a certain kind of "P" found only in the English language. Anon
- 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
- I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen