tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7814771751990061325.post1034530527411839528..comments2023-11-26T01:21:35.860-07:00Comments on Mormon Mommy Writers and Friends: Save the Idioms!Marianne (Mare) Baker Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03663143060069193124noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7814771751990061325.post-71384002806506884202016-04-29T09:59:35.185-06:002016-04-29T09:59:35.185-06:00Kasey, that's fantastic! Keep your young famil...Kasey, that's fantastic! Keep your young family reading all of those old books! Make sure they ask questions too when they don't understand...instead of assuming...which we know gets many of us in trouble at some point? <br />I like that you are finding some fun new words too. Isn't that the best? I always tell my kids to keep a thesaurus next to them when they are reading so they can look up words they don't know...but no one listens to mom! Haha<br />This one daughter of mine has read The Scarlet Letter and The Secret Garden and Anne of Green Gables and Emma and Madame Bovary...sprinkled with tons of other classics (and almost every Nancy Drew Mystery available!) It just shows how much there is to learn. Isn't it wonderful!?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08294932632073089918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7814771751990061325.post-3513471741008252482016-04-29T06:27:10.736-06:002016-04-29T06:27:10.736-06:00LOL! Oh my, I feel so bad for your daughter! Serio...LOL! Oh my, I feel so bad for your daughter! Seriously, though, my kids do that with all sorts of words and phrases. I feel like Inigo Montoya, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." <br /><br />One thing that helps our whole family to learn more of those idioms is reading older books- we recently finished reading Anne of Green Gables and it was full of words and phrases we don't hear often anymore. I even had to look up a few I didn't know! (ex: grippe = flu) <br /><br />I'm currently reading The Scarlet Letter and finding lots more. And yes, we also watch I Love Lucy! :-)KaseyQhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18394640941485859111noreply@blogger.com