Re:My son is mistaking a smartphone for his mother
by anigbrowl on Monday October 04, 2010 @05:14PM
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Eventually, he gave her a peripheral title: "Mammon," a sort of extension of his iMama. (...) since we were in Paris, [my wife] did ask a French psychologist what was going on.
'Maman' is the French equivalent of 'mommy,' but young Luka has yet to acquire his Papa's* bad habit of dividing the world into parts foreign and domestic. I suppose 'My son is learning to speak French faster than I cab learn to understand him' doesn't yield the same level of self-assurance as this ringing denouncement of telephonic inferiority.
* That's French for 'Daddy.' Those cunning froggies, always thinking they're one step ahead of us!
'Maman' is the French equivalent of 'mommy,' but young Luka has yet to acquire his Papa's* bad habit of dividing the world into parts foreign and domestic. I suppose 'My son is learning to speak French faster than I cab learn to understand him' doesn't yield the same level of self-assurance as this ringing denouncement of telephonic inferiority.
* That's French for 'Daddy.' Those cunning froggies, always thinking they're one step ahead of us!