My dad can be very silly and is always making up words and saying them over and over again. When I was little, he also used to occasionally say random words in French. Since I had never heard anyone but him say them, I assumed he made them up too.
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- When I first heard the words "flea market", I actually thought it meant "selling fleas".Anon
- I used to believe that all four-letter words are bad words.Anon
- On TV game sows when they said the winners were chosen "at random" I thought random was a town.Anon
- My mom used to say that if I said bad words, poop would appear in my mouth— Nina
- I thought "prison" and "prism" are the same words as each other.Anon
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M.