Turning into your parentsUnable to hold back the genetic tide, I find myself gardening in my carpet slippers, asking for a knife and fork in McDonalds and agreeing with the Daily Telegraph. I'm beyond help - what about you?
Thanks to b3th for the suggestion
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 30 Apr 2009, 13:39)
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Ooh! Maybe I do have a few tales to tell!As a child I read a lot. When I encountered a word I didn't know I'd often ask my parents for a definition, and they'd usually oblige.
The only problem is that by fifth grade I was already reading on a college level. I asked my father what "marmoreal" and "nuncupatory"* meant and got a blank look, and was told to look it up. So I got to be quite familiar with my parents' unabridged dictionary.
Fast forward a bunch of years. My son asks me for the definition of something. I gesture toward an unabridged dictionary sitting on a shelf. "Look it up."
And I can hear Dad chuckle.
*meaning "marble like" and "Nominal; existing only in name" respectively. I was reading a lot of Jack Vance at the time.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 30 Apr 2009, 17:22,
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I usually like your storiesBut sometimes I can't help but feel that you're just showing off; this entry seemed to be exactly this.
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Sorry.Really, I'm not- the point is that I'm a bit of a geeky bookworm type and seem to have passed that along to my own kids, and inherited a few of my parents' responses as well.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 1 May 2009, 14:24,
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