As Alex Cavanaugh pointed out on Wednesday, I could have talked about lazy writing. But I was coming off a big nerd weekend where I had a lot of things on my mind. You know...Avengers: Endgame followed by "The Long Night" episode of Game of Thrones. Alex, you were 100% correct that I could have used that as an IWSG post. But, I forgot. So I'm answering the May 1st question on May 3rd.
Here it is: What was an early experience where you learned that language had power?
Have a great weekend everyone, and if you are writing, don't make it lazy.
Now worries - the day snuck up on a lot of people since it was the first of May.
ReplyDeleteI can relate to your experience. When we came back to the States after living in Japan for years, my brother and I had challenges as our Japanese was better than our English.
I have that experience any time I have to call customer support for help. 😂
ReplyDeleteBetter late than never ;)
ReplyDeleteThat's an interesting experience. They say it's good to teach kids another language early.
ReplyDeleteHave a good weekend Mike.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm days late in commenting.
ReplyDeleteI think I instinctively learned about the importance of language, and maybe the power, when I was a kid and like the rest of my family had to be the back-up ears for our Dad, who had the beginnings of nerve deafness. I would repeat things on TV shows or in conversations with others that he missed. Learning to repeat verbatim whole sentences also helped my grasp of language.