# But if I hear "my heart, my achy, breaky heart"...

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**Created:** [July 26, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-if-i-hear-my-heart-my-achy-breaky-heart/457848 "2008-07-26T15:44:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-if-i-hear-my-heart-my-achy-breaky-heart/457848/21 "2008-07-29T14:03:43Z")

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[QUOTE=Mighty\_Girl]  
Luckily there hasn’t been any more singing since yesterday. But she has since made up a word (at least I think it’s made up). Yesterday she told me that her dress was ‘condable’ (or howevwer it is spelled). After much interrogation I think now that condable it’s a good thing. (‘Poop is not condable’, but ‘pooping is’).  
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It’s a perfectly cromulent word.

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Jinks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@Captain\_Jinks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Jinks)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-if-i-hear-my-heart-my-achy-breaky-heart/457848/22 "2008-07-29T17:16:25Z")

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[QUOTE=KneadToKnow]  
It’s a perfectly cromulent word.  
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Double plus ungood. How ‘bout QX, from “Doc” Smith’s _Lensman_ series? “Clicky” from the Flash Gordon comic strip. "Leapin’ Lizards"? The mind boggles.

Back to irritating behavior, 5 YO grandon will ask a question, and almost invariably interrupt with a “what?” partway through the answer. (Actually, he’ll do this most times someone speaks to him.)

They do grow up. Daughter’s delightful now, we have great fun. She appreciates and remembers what I told her as a child. Son ACTUALLY ADMITTED that he wished Mrs. Jinks-- a disciplinary noodle-- had been harder on him.

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