Mrs. Fisher :-) > I have read a few of your responses to other > questions and think it is fabulous that you share > your insight, research and knowledge. Thank you so > much for your thoughtful response to my post.
One of the more frightening things I ever experienced on-line was an off-list message I got from a man who had subscribed to Munchkins a short time before, read through the entire archives, and then wrote to tell me how much he enjoyed reading about all my adventures. Sometimes I forget that these messages go out to everybody -- and then stay there where anybody can access them. I certainly had not considered that someone I never corresponded with could come in, read the entire sum of discussions ever sent to the list, and that I could emerge as some kind of character in this unfolding drama, rather than as someone to have a discussion with. I'm similarly surprised, although more mildly so, that you knew who I was enough to wonder whether I would "weigh in" on your inquiry. I'm even more surprised that anybody other than Anne and Dudus even read my messages without deleting them first. :-) One further thought which comes to mind as I read your reply is perhaps it is wrong of me to throw cold water on your enthusiasm. At times I think that much of the relative success my family has had in this endeavor stems from the fact that in the beginning I really did bite off more than I could chew. Perhaps that is the only way of finding our limits. Plus, it is a way to ensure that as life gets more complicated with more kids, that we'll still be doing anything special for the kids by the time the last one rolls off the line, since by the third child we're happily dressing our boys in hand-me-down pink PJ's rather than the pressed, coordinated designer outfits we insisted on with number 1. > I hope my child(ren) will see learning as a > life-long undertaking. I will resist the temptation to make a pun with life-long and undertaking (although the undertaker has been on my mind lately.) I cannot resist the word "child(ren). We know that the plural of ox is ox-en. There's also an old germanic plural ending in -er. (We see it in the German wor Kinder - children.) I prefer to say "child-childrens" - that way I can have three plural endings on one word (child-er-en-s). This is not unlike Torpenhow Hill, which, through a series of invasions slowly acquired its polysyllabic name, which means "hillhillhill hill". Amike salutas, Thomas/Tomaso ALEXANDER. www.NightinGael.Net ---Anything below this line is not from Thomas --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multilingualmunchkin/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
