Language lessons

Listening to an exchange student grow and explore our language is enlightening - both for the native as well as non-native speaker.

Some examples - "Sauces" - we put sauce on everything in our house.  ketchup on eggs, chili sauce on butternut squash pasta, chili sauce on steak, noodles - the only thing chili sauce doesn't yet seem to mix with is Nutella - which certainly goes on everything else.

So, we had just finished dinner - the ketchup and the ever-important chili sauce was running low, and there was a discussion about getting more sauces.  We hopped in the car to run some errands, and from the back seat, there was a request from Anee to "put on some sauces" - or at least that was what I had heard.

"Sauces??? I said, starting to get irritated..."what is this, do you think I have a store of Ketchup here in the car console?  what is this obsession with sauces - what are you going to put a sauce on here in the car?? my cell phone??? "

dead silence - i realized I might have applied the sauce a little too liberally.

No, mom...came the quiet answer, not sauces - can you put on some songses (songs).

oh

yeah

that I can do... and Aidelle's voice set the new mood of giggling over mom's song-sauce dilemna.