Millions has lions.
And âconsequencesâ has âsequencesâ.
Well, all the jokes canât be good. Youâve got to expect that once in a while.
âInconceivableâ has the same problem as âsurelyâ, maybe worse; every time you use it, youâre practically begging for a movie quote.
You may not want to talk to your therapist about that.
Sad thing.
Therapy bit⊠erm, I mean nice lady, wonât let me talk about the grandkids anymore. She says itâs a diversion from my real problems.
A number of years ago, my grand-boss looked exactly like Wallace Shawn. You know how hard it was sitting in meetings expecting him to say âInconceivable!â?
Iâm curious now. Iâll watch the Princess Bride and get in on the joke.
I never watched the movie before.
Inconceivable!
You are in for a treat!
Had a friend in HS (>50 yrs ago) whose name is Gaye. We lost touch after college but every now and then for the last 30 yrs, I wonder about her.
I knew a girl named Gay as well.
Sheâs a beautician/stylist in town.
I liked her til I figured out it was her who gave every Mom w/kids in my kids school the u-g-l-y karen hair style.
Hey, MaxâŠhair has the word air in it.
Oh, noes.
Max came to me a bit ago. The kids were saying what parts of their names are other words. She was ax, her sister was ex. (Yeah, I told her that wasnât a whole word). The boys different things.
Big discussion over Lego play, it seems.
She sez âNana, human has man, are wimmens a man or not humans?â
Oh, lord how do I explain this to this kid?
I donât think I have an answer sheâll grasp, other than some person called people certain words and it stuck. And, yes woman are human.
I told her go ask her Daddy. Heâs quick witted. Heâll come up something.
Weâre soon gonna be down the etymology rabbit hole. I just know it.
For me, you are at wizard level.
Iâm sure @wolfpup is indeed a wiz. More than he knows.
You canât tell it by me. I didnât understand any of those words. I liked reading them, thoâ 
Get these kids a couple of puzzle books with âword finderâ games.
The words that go diagonally are the hardest to find.
And make up one of your own, type it up on the computer and print out the page, one for each kid.
Make the list of words they look for the names of everybody in the family .
But put one change in each puzzle page, so that the kidâs own name appears prominently. (Just be careful to give the right page to the right kidâŠya donât want to make one of 'em cry.)
The oldest ones are playing adult Scrabble. I play with them sometimes.
I never lose.
I donât grant any favors cause they are young.
It builds character to lose to your Nana.
They learn words. I get asked all the time, What does that word mean?
Ive seen the signs before. They are working up to challenges. I canât wait.
Yeah, words are a big part of the life we live. I do 3 crosswords everyday. I listen to them read.
It stands to reason Max would question words.
Surely, the first 999 times.
One of my professors spring semester gave video lectures with a cat avatar
~Max
I was actually taught that man was sometimes neutral (when referring to the race, as in mankind, human) and that the name âwomanâ refers to how woman was first created from man (Genesis 2:23 âAnd Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Manâ). Or, at least in Hebrew with ish and ishah. In English I think it comes from wife+man â wiman â woman.
~Max
Yeah, wonât be telling a 7yo that.
We like fairy stories but that one is not the road weâre traveling.