Two Words, Sounds like...

No we aren't on a charades kick at 53 Hancock St.  No, we are in the phase of language acquisition where Ethan is sucking up new words faster than we can throw at him.  I have had to bust out the big guns with stuff like a grocery store line discussion of the differences between "omnivores, carnivores, and herbivores."  At some point, like with Isaac, we will stray into taxonomy because all of my normal-use big words have been explained.  Pachycephalosauridae anyone?

This past two weeks has Ethan fixated on two words: bro and dope.  Yes.  You read that correctly.  In part it is because his big brother, who is infinitely cool, drops those words like gray clouds drop rain.  But it is also because those words work in so many different ways.

But the funny part of this is that Isaac himself was obsessed with the word "dope" (as in cool or interesting not either the dumb person or the drug).  But Isaac swore for probably three or four weeks when he first heard the word that it was "doke."  I tried to softly redirect him to the right word and I tried to show him examples of it being used.  But until his friends corrected me, Isaac assumed that I was an out of touch, geezer. 

Now Ethan is laboring under a mispronunciation.  Its not dope or even doke, its...wait for it...dofe.  What?  How did he get that out of the letters d-o-p-e?  Well, it doesn't matter because, for now, Ethan thinks it is dofe.  Eventually, I am sure, he will hear Captain Cool (Isaac) say it correctly and all of a sudden he will not yell and scream when we tell him that it is dope. 

So you, two words, sounds like DOPE. 
Tony Sculimbrene