The Mederos

by Julie Medero and Shawn Medero.

Tag Archives: linguistics

  1. More Martin phrase fun

    Martin’s latest word fun fest involves his desired location in relation to a specific person.

    A new favorite of ours is:

    Pick me down

    A variation of “pick me up” of course. Awesome.

    Also interesting is his use of:

    sit on my lap

    What he really means is, “Let me sit on your lap”.

    January 14, 2009MartinNo comments
  2. Martin Tests Word Order and Other Randomness

    Martin’s figured out he can swap words around within a sentence and that doing so might provoke a different outcome.

    Sometimes it doesn’t work.

    I want not go outside

    moments later…

    I not want go outside

    Besides testing his world with language, Martin has many phrases (often used in a socially unacceptable ways) that tend to [...]

    December 6, 2008Martin1 comment