Some new phrases from our budding linguist:
- Yesternight.Sebastian used this when talking to AM last week about the previous night (“Remember when daddy did something funny yesternight?”) You can’t argue with the logic and I think it should be added to our lexicon.
- “…you know.” He’s been using this phrase a lot lately, tacking it onto the end of his statements: “There are a lot of marbles in there you know.”
- At breakfast yesterday Sebastian & I were sitting at the dining table and he saw his Chutes & Ladders game and asked if I’d like to play after we finished eating. “Do you prefer it?” he asked. “Prefer it to what?” I countered. “Do you prefer to play it?” I didn’t press the point further but was quite amused with his comment. He won, by the way.
More to come I’m sure – he’s picking up more & more each day!
I couldn’t help but agree with you on the logic behind “yesternight” only to find that the word has been used before by the likes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Shelly, and one Billy Shakespeare. It would then seem that Sebastian is well beyond my comprehension of the english language, and I’m in college, so sad. . .
Yeah, but what have any of those people done for us lately? Nothing.
Sebastian & I were musing on the use of the word the other night and it works fine, though you can just as easily say “last night.” But “last day” just doesn’t fit. Weird.