Eli 3.0: All Roads Lead to That Other Word
If you haven't read 'Who's Cursing on First?', this won't make any sense (it's still available--just page down for a while).We're out on a long walk yesterday, and Eli was making a joke about the ways to pronounce 'potato' because of something he'd seen on Maggie and the Ferocious Beast recently. We go into a long discussion of (phonetic spelling coming up here) 'po-tay-to' versus 'po-tah-to.' Then he says, "'Potato' is a nice word."
"Yes, it is," I say.
"And 'shoot' is a nice word."
"Yes."
"But that other word is not."
'Potato' leads to 'shoot' leads to 'that other word.' It's the child cursing version of Six Degrees of Separation. Or Kevin Bacon.
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