It's OK To Employ Esoteric Linguistic Constructs

Children repeat what they hear. If you talk Dutch or Swedish to a three year old child, the child will reply in Dutch or Swedish. Children raised by wolves howl and have an inexplicable interest in fire hydrants. That two and three year old children have the seemingly impossible ability to reproduce not just the phonemic but also the phonetic components of even the world’s most difficult language is proven every time a child speaks French. Mais wee, mis onfont. If I had a child, I would, in my conversations with that child, employ esoteric linguistic constructs obviously weighted with the approbation of the academic community. My child would, as Pogo so ably parroted, go forth into the world inebriated by the exuberance of his own verbosity. Dr. Olga has done this, as evinced by her letter which says, “Humble-- All the kids at church had to write Mother's Day hearts saying how people sho...
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