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From: dianet@iddic.UUCP (Diane Tierney)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Nice things about kids
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Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 17:48:46 EDT
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> One nice thing about kids is the way they can make you look in 
> new ways at language.

Good point!!
My daughters both use the word amn't (contraction for am not).  It seems like
a perfectly logical word to me.  Who makes the rules for contractions anyway?

Also my second grader brings home her list of spelling words and BONUS spelling
words.  The BONUS words are words that she has to memorize because they don't
follow any of the rules established for the english language.  Now how do you
explain to an 8 year old that some rules apply and some rules don't!!  (some
examples of BONUS words: want, goes, done, where, you, their).