Non Sequitor

[azurelunatic]

Votania's developing the interesting habit of referring to people who aren't actually physically present at the moment by pronoun. For example, out of the absolute blue, "He says ....", or "When he's done with the project, he'll..." or things of that general nature.

I'm used to this in myself. Heck, everyone around's used to this in me. I refer to Darkside in that fashion all the time, without bothering for introduction. Everyone who knows me gets to know Darkside too. It's as if he's always with me, in some fashion, and therefore does not have to be brought up by name, just by general presence.

It's interesting, to hear someone else use tricks of the language that I started with years ago.

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me too

[boojum.livejournal.com]

I'll start a conversation out of the blue with a reference like that, but it's usually not a predictable reference. It usually means that I've forgotten other people don't have access to the inside of my head again.

Re: me too

[azurelunatic]

Votania does often have access to the inside of my head, though...

Lately, we've been doing the mommy-echo. One of us sees something, and the other one does the mommy-lecture on it...

Re: me too

[boojum.livejournal.com]

Mommy-lecture from the one who's not there must confuse the bejeebers out of Nephew.

Re: me too

[azurelunatic]

Nope, because he's growing up with this... he'll be confused when other people's Mommies don't know exactly what's going on in every corner of the house, even when he's playing with the bathroom light switch and there's no way she can see that he's doing it, and I chew him out for it because Mommy has her mouth full...

Re: me too

[azurelunatic]

He's gotten used to either of us speaking for each other. We're working as a team, and we're getting to that point where we know the things that each other say, and we say them for each other, because there are things hanging in the air unsaid, even if we've never said them before, and they often turn out to be what the other person was going to say.

It confuses people who aren't of the household, but as Nephew's spent the past two years of his life with this, it's very normal. I think he'd get confused far worse if we were to stop speaking for each other...