A universal language
August 31st, 2009
From the mouths of babes.
Overheard yesterday, an 8-year old boy and a 6-year girl old playing on the street.
8-year old: I know a universal language. Do you know what that means?
6-year old: Yes, I know. Do you?
8-year old: Yes, it’s a language that everyone in the world can understand.
6-year old: No, stupid, universal language means when I speak in that language, everyone can understand me!
I enjoyed that Thank you! Although I’m left wondering what that universal language is.
Whilst English is indeed widely spoken, as I know from my travels, it is far from universal. We do need an international second language. My vote goes to Esperanto. Take a look at http://www.esperanto.net
What do you think?
Heheheh! Did they meet R anywhere??? She sure speaks the universal language which not even her mom can understand!!!!
6 yrs old was more right.
ha ha, very sweet and yet logical. What these kids talks about now days makes me go back yester-years. How the generation evolves. We used to talk….’le’ts play mom-dad’, ‘i got the biggest toy in the world’, or something which did not realte to current affairs, but o my! o my! kids now a days!
here is another example.
This weekend, while playing with n’bor’s kid (they are indian too), my son and he had a race…FOR A CHANGE, this time my son wins…and he declares, “now that I have won, I am the President and you are the Vice President, you have to follow as I say. And yes, you do not have to call me Barack Obama, you can just call me Obama”
…..my vote goes for either langguage of love or sign-langguage… not english for sure…
Thanks all for your comments. As IWW says, I too was amazed at the topic for conversation…
Do kids discuss this today?!!! Amazing! I thought Universal language was language of love
It could be music, dancing, laughter also…