I love language. Yesterday, I was introducing Barak to the idea of words that are spelled and pronounced the same but mean different things. His art teacher had talked about "abstract art" and I pointed out that when I hear the word "abstract", I think of an abstract of a paper.
I was about to tell him about flammable and inflammable, but Yael's bus arrived and we were interrupted :)
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Date: 2015-06-11 11:54 am (UTC)I was about to tell him about flammable and inflammable, but Yael's bus arrived and we were interrupted :)