{"id":14336,"date":"2011-10-25T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14336"},"modified":"2011-10-23T08:41:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T15:41:01","slug":"kids-say-the-darnedest-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14336","title":{"rendered":"Kids Say the Darnedest Things!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sorting through some old papers and came across a photocopy of this clipping from what I am pretty sure was <em>The New York Times. <\/em>I have not, however, been able to confirm that. If anyone can tell me the source, I&#8217;d appreciate it. Nonetheless, I think it&#8217;s a fitting follow up to my last post about translation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>David Tuckerman, who lives near the United Nations, is accustomed to hearing many languages. Recently, he heard a man speaking to his daughter, who appeared to be about 5 years old, in a language he couldn&#8217;t identify. He asked what it was and was told that it was Serbian and that naturally the little girl, living in New York, also spoke English.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Tuckerman complimented the girl on being bilingual and she corrected him. &#8220;I&#8217;m trilingual,&#8221; she said. &#8220;My mother is Greek, so I speak Greek to her.&#8221; He complimented her again, for knowing the definitions of bi- and trilingual, and then asked what people who spoke only one language were called.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Americans,&#8221; she replied without hesitation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardjnewman.com\">Cross-posted<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sorting through some old papers and came across a photocopy of this clipping from what I am pretty sure was The New York Times. I have not, however, been able to confirm that. If anyone can tell me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14336\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14337,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336\/revisions\/14337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}