I am feeling quiet this morning, after an earlier-than-usual start to the day and a tiring workout, so I am just listening while the CRAUVAS twins* chat.
My 18yo is feeling unusually chatty this morning. He starts off telling his sister about the development of color terms in other languages. (He's firmly on the side of Berlin and Kay.) They look up the Arabic word for "blue"; he struggles to pronounce it. "Their grammar is different from ours," Stella opines. "That's true," her older brother says kindly, "but what's relevant here is their phonotactics."
The topic shifts and they pull the Molymod set down. In this picture he is saying "And your body builds its own proteins! And do you know about DNA yet?" -- followed shortly by "Let me show you where we keep our polysaccharides," and a quick trip to the flour canister.
*One morning I woke up my now-18yo, but I called him by his sister's name. "Mom," he groaned, "wrong name." On the face of it this was a ridiculous mistake to make -- he was six feet tall with a big baritone voice and she was not -- but I thought about it for a minute. "I know!" I exclaimed. "It's because both of your names start with anterior unchecked vowels followed by alveolar sonorants!" "Mom," he groaned again, "it's too early for that stuff." We have another child whose name starts with an anterior unchecked vowel followed by an alveolar sonorant, but he isn't living here now. So the CRAUVAS twins are the Currently Resident Anterior Unchecked Vowels-Alveolar Sonorants kids. Just in case you wondered.
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