Re: What are mothers for? WAS:Another little translation exercise

Mia Soderquist wrote:
> Well, this is my fifth child, and I will admit to subjecting all my kids
> to all kinds of linguistic torture. (laugh) I think they assume that all
> mothers make up languages, listen to recordings of languages they don't
> understand, and use random foreign phrases in conversation just because
> they sound right. :)
But you've never considered *teaching* them any of your conlangs?  Is
that because you yourself aren't fluent enough, or because you don't
want to, or what?  Just curious.

> Mia (mother to Nick
Good name, bad spelling.  ;-)

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