“Perhaps you have an ear for languages,” I suggested, which led to a savage assessment of some of the silly rules in English. Part of the problem is that she has slipped from a smartphone to a version of the old Nokias we used to have, so typing out the whole word is painful.Īnd I sense that part of the issue is that she knows it winds me up.ĭriving to the bus on a recent morning she revealed Maori was her favourite subject, equal with Spanish which was taught in the first half of the year. I used to tease mum that we didn’t speak as Shakespeare wrote so she had to get used to different uses of words.īut allow an old curmudgeon a few minutes to bemoan not being able to understand what should be a simple text message. The other day, as she was spamming me about a math test she’d found easy, she reached uncharted territory when she fired through acronyms and then explanations.Īnd “idk” means I don’t know, which is pretty much how I feel when I ask myself if these strange creatures I call my daughters are actually mine. Polly Greeks' Blog: Growing up in the olden days I’m engaged in a losing tussle with the youngest over her text messages because her obsession with acronyms (though many strictly speaking aren’t acronyms) is driving me crazy. She rolled her eyes at us and I mused that the echoes of our English teacher mother are still strong. Recently, my sister and I simultaneously corrected her university-attending daughter when she said ‘me’ instead of ‘I’. It’s because some words used wrongly grate more than others.īrought instead of bought is near the top of my list alongside the misuse of their and there, and when to use I and me. Nor does the fact I know she’s intelligent and on track to do great things with her life. She admitted she knew it was wrong, and blamed auto correct, but that failed to ease the pain. So I replied: “You can bring home a boyfriend with his nose pierced and tattoos but you cannot use brought when you mean bought.”Įnglish is a confusing language, as our lovely Japanese student who is with us for the year knows all too well, but it’s not that complicated. “I brought bananas thinking I was being forward thinking but you’d already bought them,” she said, leaving me distraught not at the fact that we now had an oversupply of bananas, but at the second word in the text.
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