Jean in Newcastle Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 I'm not talking about cursing! I'm talking about things like "serious mysterious" (The Mysteries of Alfred the Hedgehog") and "absoposolutely!" (Elliot Moose"). It drives me nuts! For the "serious mysterious" one, ds13 always yells out "It's an adverb! It should be seriously mysterious!!! - so it bugs him too.:auto: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherry in OH Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 It bothers me too. That is why my children have never seen Sesame Street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsabelC Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Lighten up already! It's called playing with language, and it's what Shakespeare and a lot of other famous writers did. They're not saying serious mysterious in order to undermine the correct use of adverbs vs adjectives, they're saying it because it rhymes and rhyming is fun. Absoposolutely is a hamburger style portmanteau word and I think it's quite clever (and has the added attraction of not being rude like the other version that springs to mind). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 My kids started saying "super duper" and "gigantic-antic" after reading "Homer Price." Don't worry too much. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristusG Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 What about yesaroonie positoonie from Pinky Dinky Doo. I wouldn't worry too much. DD3 said this for a while last year and then quit. What I really do have a problem with is all the name calling in children's shows. I try to limit my kids shows to a lot of PBS where there's not really any name calling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Not bothered at all. The more kids play with language, the more facile they will become. Tara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 That kind of stuff doesn't bother me nearly as much as the way the characters talk to each other on some of those kids' shows. They are rude and snotty and call each other insulting names. That drives me bonkers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan in SC Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 No. Are you a very literal family? We are very artsy-fartsy (sorry, couldn't help myself!) and we love word play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyej Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Not really. My family plays with language a lot. I suppose if tv were a significant part of my children's linguistic influence, it might distress me, but like your son, my kids generally recognize the difference between "correct" English and playful English. I don't even mind phrases like "my bad", if the speaker knows why it's slang and not standard English. And if they can also say, "I'm sorry, my mistake" and "mea culpa" and "ou gar aitios eimi"... ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmacnchs Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 That kind of stuff doesn't bother me nearly as much as the way the characters talk to each other on some of those kids' shows. They are rude and snotty and call each other insulting names. That drives me bonkers. me too and my kids love My Friend Rabbit (Qubo) but I don't like it when my 4yo says, "Oh, cabbage!" - all it is is a replacement curse, using cabbage b/c he is a rabbit :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarcyB Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 That kind of stuff doesn't bother me nearly as much as the way the characters talk to each other on some of those kids' shows. They are rude and snotty and call each other insulting names. That drives me bonkers. :iagree: We're all for wordplay in our house and come up with some doozies ourselves :) We love doing it. But I do get frustrated with everyday language that is incorrect and is continually modeled incorrectly on tv in everyday language. The adverbs are a big one here, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gooblink Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 I love word play, but we don't watch TV, so I don't even know the shows you're referring to. Maybe the characters would bother me more than their creativity with language. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danivdp Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 I don't know if my kids get it off TV or somewhere else, but ginormous and hunormous have been bothering me lately. I usually correct them: "Dear, ginormous is not a word. What two words is ginormous made from?" Them: "Um, I dunno" Me: "Giant and enormous, please use a proper word to describe your pancake." They hate that discussion, so I'm hoping to avoid my kids contributing to the addition of new words to the dictionary. I will have a heart attack if I ever see one of those two in there. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KS_ Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 I don't know if my kids get it off TV or somewhere else, but ginormous and hunormous have been bothering me lately. I usually correct them: "Dear, ginormous is not a word. What two words is ginormous made from?" Them: "Um, I dunno" Me: "Giant and enormous, please use a proper word to describe your pancake." They hate that discussion, so I'm hoping to avoid my kids contributing to the addition of new words to the dictionary. I will have a heart attack if I ever see one of those two in there. :tongue_smilie: Ginormous made the dictionary in 2007 - my ds was thrilled: http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/2007-07-10-dictionary-new-words_N.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 I was wrong! My kids started saying "colossal-ossal." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 (edited) Does not bother me in the least. Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. This too: www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/the-muppet-show-jabberwocky/192a7b4a9fb156803f25192a7b4a9fb156803f25-200609367139?q=Jabberwocky&FORM=VIRE1 Edited October 11, 2010 by LibraryLover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 And this fom No Sweat Shakespeare.: In all of his work - the plays, the sonnets and the narrative poems - Shakespeare uses 17,677 words: Of those, 1,700 were first used by Shakespeare. This list of words that we use in our daily speech were all brought into usage by Shakespeare: accommodation aerial amazement apostrophe assassination auspicious baseless bloody bump castigate changeful clangor control (noun) countless courtship critic critical dexterously dishearten dislocate dwindle eventful exposure fitful frugal generous gloomy gnarled hurry impartial inauspicious indistinguishable invulnerable lapse laughable lonely majestic misplaced monumental multitudinous obscene palmy perusal pious premeditated radiance reliance road sanctimonious seamy sportive submerge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 (edited) Ginormous is a classic Portmanteau; two meanings packed into one word. (Well, portmanteau is actually a French word for a certain kind of suitcase that has two compartments...get it? :) ) English is costantly changing; without making up new words, or stealing, aka borrowing, words from other languages ;) , there would be no English language. I think it's pretty interesting. I don't know if my kids get it off TV or somewhere else, but ginormous and hunormous have been bothering me lately. I usually correct them: "Dear, ginormous is not a word. What two words is ginormous made from?" Them: "Um, I dunno" Me: "Giant and enormous, please use a proper word to describe your pancake." They hate that discussion, so I'm hoping to avoid my kids contributing to the addition of new words to the dictionary. I will have a heart attack if I ever see one of those two in there. :tongue_smilie: Edited October 11, 2010 by LibraryLover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 And this fom No Sweat Shakespeare.: In all of his work - the plays, the sonnets and the narrative poems - Shakespeare uses 17,677 words: Of those, 1,700 were first used by Shakespeare. This list of words that we use in our daily speech were all brought into usage by Shakespeare: accommodation aerial amazement apostrophe assassination auspicious baseless bloody bump castigate changeful clangor control (noun) countless courtship critic critical dexterously dishearten dislocate dwindle eventful exposure fitful frugal generous gloomy gnarled hurry impartial inauspicious indistinguishable invulnerable lapse laughable lonely majestic misplaced monumental multitudinous obscene palmy perusal pious premeditated radiance reliance road sanctimonious seamy sportive submerge The title "No Sweat Shakespeare" offends me. We don't say sweat in my family. just kidding :tongue_smilie::lol::D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwenhwyfar Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 doesn't bother me at all ~ i have a tendency to make up words myself. :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 doesn't bother me at all ~ i have a tendency to make up words myself. :laugh: My dd makes up words. She has epilepsy and has trouble retrieving words sometimes. I think it is a sweet part of her personality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 The title "No Sweat Shakespeare" offends me. We don't say sweat in my family.just kidding :tongue_smilie::lol::D What about schviting? ;) No Schvitz Shakespeare? (Yiddish) No Svette Shakerspeare? (Finnish) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scuff Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Remember Oobie? Hated that show. Use proper english! Kids don't need help speaking baby talk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted October 11, 2010 Author Share Posted October 11, 2010 :lol: That will teach me to post and then go to bed! (It was a light-hearted post like noting that when John Tesh was the Olympics commentator years ago he kept saying "histrionics" instead of "history" - now that bothered me too!) For the record, it is more of a "fingernails on a chalkboard" kind of a being bothered. I'm not offended. And we still watch the shows. And I've been known to use these words because they are like fingernails on a chalkboard for ds too and I like to make him squirm! And yes, we love word play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyCrazyMama Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Ginormous is a classic Portmanteau; two meanings packed into one word. (Well, portmanteau is actually a French word for a certain kind of suitcase that has two compartments...get it? :) ) English is costantly changing; without making up new words, or stealing, aka borrowing, words from other languages ;) , there would be no English language. I think it's pretty interesting. I like the word ginormous and use it often. :tongue_smilie: We play with words a lot around here. :) (but hardly watch tv ;) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsabelC Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 I don't know if my kids get it off TV or somewhere else, but ginormous and hunormous have been bothering me lately. I usually correct them: "Dear, ginormous is not a word. What two words is ginormous made from?" Them: "Um, I dunno" Me: "Giant and enormous, please use a proper word to describe your pancake." Ginormous is a perfectly legit word. But hunormous is just plain wrong: the correct form is, or course, humungous, or humungadungous for extra emphasis:001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zann Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 Some of the comments in this thread is just more rienforcement of why my family watch any T.V. I have DvDs of cartoons which I first screen to check the content. ( I was really disgusted with spongbob.) I try to stick with classics. 1958 version of Sleeping Beauty is my girls favorite. Popeye with Robin Williams is another favorite. My wife and I also allow them to watch films from china. Most chinese moves have differing degree's of violence but have no sexual content. Also most of the movies are culturally rich in there storytelling. Our current favorite is True Legend about Su Can aka Begger Su who developed the Drunken Master style of Kung Fu. We watch these movies in thier Chinese language with Subtitles. This forces them to read and gives them a ear for the sounds of the chinese language. (Sometimes when they are playing I swear I hear them talking chinese) I know a lot of parents today are anti violence but I believe that there is a lesson for us in the story of Jesus turning over the tables in the temple. Its said "you are what you eat" the same is true for what you feed your mind. Also here is something else that I picked up, I have been told that the structure of commercials - meaning 6 mins of programing 4 commericals 6 mins of programing 4 commericals actually trains your Grammar stage child to only concentrate in short bursts, destroying a childs attention span. (Sound familiar - I wonder what a timeline of ADHD growth next to increase in cartoon watching for kids looks like side by side) There were those who told me it was cruel at first, but the proof was in the pudding. My sisters kids who are glued to thier 65 inch are hellions. They have and treat her and her husband with 0 respect. On the opposite side are my 3 kids (our sons are 10 days difference in age) who are calm and patient. You can put them in a back yard with nothing but the grass and a tree and they will create a world of there own to play in. On the other coin my sisters children need constant attention and have no focus accept to be continuously entertained. Let me say this, my sister is a good mother she is loving and patient with her kids and this goes to the point I brought out earlier ..... how can we as parents compete with the T.V. The Truth is we can't. We as adults can't compete with the constant bombardment to our own minds, much less the minds of our growing children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaillardia Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 My dad taught me spoonerisms and sometimes I can't stop speaking them. It is like a different language. My family quite often can't keep up with me if I'm really into spoonerizing. Don't know why I do it... I am not familiar with the shows you're talking about, except Sesame Street which took a turn for the worser worse (:lol:) quite a few years ago. Ginormous has been bothering me too, but it is funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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