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From: susan@madvax.UUCP (Susan Finkelman)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Nice things about kids
Message-ID: <352@madvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 13:19:26 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 25 13:19:26 1985
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> > 
> > One nice thing about kids is the way they can make you look in 
> > new ways at language.
> 
> Good point!!
> My daughters both use the word amn't (contraction for am not).  It seems like
> a perfectly logical word to me.  Who makes the rules for contractions anyway?
> 
> Also my second grader brings home her list of spelling words and BONUS spelling
> words.  The BONUS words are words that she has to memorize because they don't
> follow any of the rules established for the english language.  Now how do you
								^^^^^^^^^
> explain to an 8 year old that some rules apply and some rules don't!!  (some
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> examples of BONUS words: want, goes, done, where, you, their).

My dad always said, there are somethings you just have to do.  That
applied to such things as different rules for good and play clothes, 
and more formal manners to be used with adults than with playmates.
By the time I was eight, it was clear that sometimes adults had strange
rules, but I was better off following them.  Guess it could apply to
spelling, too.