It appears that some people (my wife chief
amongst them) believe I am a pedant, or at least display pedantic tendencies (I
am fond of the Oxford comma). Furthermore, she also believes that her Dad is of
a similar bent. Proving that there is a familial link for such character
traits, MacK is driving all and sundry nuts with his advanced language
understanding.
Perhaps the best example happened yesterday
at day care, when he and his friends were motoring around the playground. The
staff told them to stop running, at which time the wee man responded with “its
ok, I’m not running. I’m galloping!”
What do you do? I say we should publicly
celebrate the fact he can manipulate language, whilst privately gnashing our
teeth in despair! Of course, we love him to bits, and try not to laugh too much
when he does these wonderful things.
Our Super pedant!
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