Small children don’t understand a lot of things about language, even though they may be using what bits of it they do know idiomatically and appropriately, but they have a hard time with “implicatures” and pragmatics. As in the many-times repeated scenario of at tot answering the telephone.
stairsteppublishing 12 months ago
At least he is reading it, it could be worse…..
Skeptical Meg 12 months ago
A dual-use comic!
AndrewSihler 12 months ago
Small children don’t understand a lot of things about language, even though they may be using what bits of it they do know idiomatically and appropriately, but they have a hard time with “implicatures” and pragmatics. As in the many-times repeated scenario of at tot answering the telephone.
Me: Hi, this is Ted Smith. Is your mother home?
Tot: Uh-huh.
Silence before hanging up.
BlueIris Premium Member 12 months ago
Out of the mouth of babes!