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More Baby Keats

26Jan09

Coined terms are the province of modernists and gonzo journalists like Tom Wolfe, but once in a while, Finn’s creative language skills lead to something startling and fresh. (At least I like to think so.)
This morning at breakfast, he blurted out, “I cold, Mom! I really, really cold! I spilled some of my Weetabix on [...]

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He can’t use a subject pronoun properly, but he’s got a helluva primordial subconscious

26Jan09

Finn regularly substitutes the object pronoun for a subject pronoun, as in “Him not really the Headless Horseman! Him Brom Bones!” or “Her not being nice!”
But such grammatical hijinks belies a linguistic intelligence that’s nearly poetic. Last week, he had a dream (he has a lot of dreams, actually) that made a big impression on [...]