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From KQED.

Welcome back to Forum.

I'm Mina Kim.

There are words and phrases unique to your family,

like Absolutely, which forum listener Chris shared with us, or Struggle from James. And there's

a word for this unique dialect, Famalect, the private language and injokes that make no sense

outside of your home. My next guest, Catherine Himes, has explored why we speak

more weirdly at home, which also happens to be the title of her recent Atlantic piece. Catherine

Heimes, welcome to forum. Thank you so much for having me. I'm stoked to be here. Well, I'm really

glad to have you. And one of the things that I enjoyed learning is that on your birthday, instead of wishing you a happy birthday, your partner says a Turkish phrase that literally means two pigs. Why does your partner do this?

Yes. So there's a story behind it, like there are with so many of these words. When I was a younger me,

I wanted to impress my new Turkish-American boyfriend in that nervous dating stage by learning

a little Turkish and surprising him on his birthday. So I carefully studied all of the silly

first words you do as an adult language learner, the animals, the holidays, the tourist vocab.

And time comes for me to sing, and I loudly sing, I Kidomus Haqon, which I meant to be

happy birthday hakon, but actually means two pigs, Haqqan.

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