When I was rather young, my friend and I thought we could speak with British accents as if it was a whole different language, and we wrote it differently. All as were to be substituted for os, so bath became both (pronounce bawth). The opposite was also true; all os became as. So "Let's go" would become "Let's ga (gay)."
We used to speak in this manner around our parents, thinking they couldn't understand a word that we said. And of course, we had cracked a code; everyone wrote their words with these alternate spellings in England.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to believe, that I am able to speak every foreign language only by learning "their" alphabet.— matej
- I would speak in gidderish, convinced that it was some foreign language I had never heard of— Molly
- I thought all you had to do to speak Russian was add -ski to the end of every word!— nateski
- I used to believe that to speak Spanish all you had to do was a an "o" to the end of each word. — !!.-ariel-.!!
- I remember thinking that non-English speakers were much smarter because they could speak "so much faster." Anon
- I legitmately thought that my mom wouldnt be able to read my diary if I wrote it pig latin!— Ashley