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You're listening to Away with Words. I'm Martha Barnett.

And I'm Grant Barrett.

We often talk about the differences between what

people say and what they mean and what other people understand. So I was pleased to find a funny little

write-up on the blog of a woman calling herself

Mommy Nolan. Writing from Logan, Utah and using her experience with her own

children, she writes about the things that she says and what her granddaughter understands.

And they're not necessarily the same things.

For example, if Mommy Nolan says no, her granddaughter hears maybe. And if she says maybe, her granddaughter hears maybe and if she says maybe her granddaughter hears

ask again and again and yes is right around the corner oh yeah that's exactly

what happened in our house the phrase was can we see about it was, can we see about it?

And she would say, yes, we can see about it. And somehow that was satisfying for

everybody. I don't even know if we got what we were asking for, but the

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