Kid words

[azurelunatic]

"You sound disappointed, little bird."
"...Poisonous little bird?"
"No, 'You sound disappointed, little bird.' Do you know what 'disappointed' means?"
"...No?"
So I explained it.

I did pretty much the same thing with my parents' friend Terry and the word 'unsanitary' as a kid. I hadn't encountered Terry as a name before... Fortunately, I was sufficiently inarticulate due to youth so that I was unintelligable to anyone but my parents.

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[alphafenris.livejournal.com]

Worst vocabulary moment?

Once (well over a decade ago . . . I was pretty young) when I was reading a paperback book I encountered a word I had never seen before. I turned to my father and asked "what does 'erotic' mean?"

Man, that sucked.

[azurelunatic]

Hoo boy. *giggles*

My father evidently felt the need to explain what male homosexuality was all about to my sister. He only felt the need to explain dildoes to me.

[alphafenris.livejournal.com]

. . . there's an "e" in the plural of dildo?

(and another thought, your father was concerned that your sister would turn into a gay man? Sorry, just watched the "Him" episode of Buffy)

[azurelunatic]

Evidently my sister was unfamiliar with the phenomenon. So my father got a little more technical than she really wanted to get.

[boojum.livejournal.com]

A few years back my sister (would have been around sixteen at the time) got stuck at a restaurant with my grandfather explaining how seniors could and did have active sex lives to her, using himself as an example.

Then again, I got in trouble in day care in first/third grade (depending on whether you believe my mother or me) for bringing in a book with pictures of naked women in it. It was my favorite book of the time: one half was a woman's diary during her pregnancy with annotations from her doctor on what the symptoms meant; the other was a detailed medical overview of pregnancy. The naked pictures were of the diary-author, showing how her body was changing.

[azurelunatic]

Hee.

I imagine how that could have set them off.

My parents may not have been thrilled with me when I pointed out that their condoms were far past the expiration date.

[boojum.livejournal.com]

I understand why now. At the time, it was more fodder for my belief that grown-ups were completely off their rockers.

[alphafenris.livejournal.com]

I can just see it now . . .

"And so, when a man loves another man they . . . okay, flip the next slide."