language

I used to believe…

when I was little, I thought that each foreign language was just a 'code', + you could learn it by finding out which letters represented which. The only foreign word I knew was 'oui', so I had a starting point for learning French:
Y=O
E=U
S=I
I was dying to find something writen in French so I could crack more of the code...

I used to believe…

Up until I was 5, I would always say "Lay" instead of "L". My brother and sister were 9 and 13 and always asked me to spell "lollypop" I would always start out " Lay, o " They loved it.

I used to believe…

When I was about 6 years old, me and my younger brother found the "Lord of the rings" book in my parents bedroom,it was the biggest book we had ever seen, except for the bible, so we thought it was the opposite,the Devil's book, so we hid it under the book shelf, unluckily, it was a library book...

I used to believe that when someone was born, no matter what country they lived in, automatically spoke English, and that their parents would have to teach them their native language.

I used to believe…

iused to think that L-M-N-O-P was a Diffrent kind of p an ELMNO P

I used to think that crap was like sour"kraut".

I used to belive that everyone spoke the same language. i thought the people talking in different languages were just talkng jibberish.

I used to believe…

When I learned the ABC's song, I thought that "lmnop" was one letter.

I used to think that the word sha*ged meant killed. and I saw Ken Barlow (from corrie) in the paper and the headline was corrie star's dog killed in fight and I went up to my mum and said "hey mum, You heard that ken Barlow's dog was sha*ged by another dog?"

I used to believe…

My older brother would swear a lot around me and tell me that words like f**k and s**t were names. The words Ugly Whore was the name Louisa May, my mothers first and middle name. This didn't cause a problem until someone gave me a doll and asked me what I'd name it. Proudly I said, "She's Ugly Whore, like my mummy."

I used to believe that numbers only lasted to 1000. I also used to believe that after 100 or 1000, it would be 100, 200, 300, 400 etc. LOL!!!

I used to think L, M, N and O were one letter, elomeno. I had a very long arguememt with my teacher as she had drawn funny letters that werent in the alphabet and had neglected to teach us about elemeno. Se told my other teachers I assume because when I was a little older in other years, my teachers would say: 'This isn't another elemeno question, is it Erika?'

I used to believe the first language you knew and learned is the only one you could learn. It was like it was against the law, or your brain couldn't handle it. LOL!!!

I used to believe…

When I was little I didn't really understand how numbers worked, I knew that you could carry on counting forever so naturally I assumed that the number system was cyclic, you obviously couldn't have that many different numbers.

When counting in 10s in my number system you went '10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 20, 30, 40.... ad infinitum

obviously with numbers less than 20 you knew whether they were bigger or smaller than each other, cos you only used them once, but when asked as a child 'is 30 bigger or smaller than 20' I replied 'id depends on which 20'

I'm quite good at maths now..

I used to believe…

When I was 6, I used to think the term "dummy" was a curse word. So I felt really grown-up and cool calling someone "dummy".

I used to believe…

When I was young, before I knew my ABC's, I didn't understand how it was possible to read without speaking the words out loud. I thought my Mom was being silly when she would read to herself because I believed she was just staring at the page and pretending that she was somehow absorting the content.