Have a funny story regarding the use of, teaching, working on, etc. whatever formulaic?<\/p>\n
Thanks to \u00a0Catrin Bellay<\/em><\/p>\n Musical, Audio-visual, Poetic and Narrative Input in a bilingual context: In my corpus-based study of bilingual acquisition I have the following example.<\/p>\n One day, Lo\u00efc (2;1;18) upon seeing a flower, encountered homophone confusion when he said: I heard the following joke today, which reminded me of Lo\u00efc’s confusion. I hope he sorts it out before it’s too late! ‘Self-raising, isn’t it?’<\/p>\n Thus began Tony’s life of celibacy.<\/p>\n —–<\/p>\n Thanks to Helen Osimo<\/em><\/p>\n There have been some cute jokes going around following the Icelandic volcano, clearly exploiting formulae! Here are a couple:<\/p>\n I see that America has declared war on Iceland. Apparently they are Waiter, there’s volcanic ash in my soup. I know, it’s a no-fly zone.<\/p>\n —–<\/p>\n Thanks to Alison Wray<\/em><\/p>\n Joke heard on the radio the other day: —–<\/p>\n
\n“Flower, butter and sugar”
\nHe had been watching an episode of \u201cOswald\u201d around that time, in which Oswald and Daisy make super sticky honey buns and list the ingredients, “flour, butter, sugar”.
\nThe very next day the following occurred
\nC: Babar’s children are called Alexander, Pom and Fleur.
\nL (2;1;19): Butter and sugar<\/p>\n
\nMany aspects of human sexuality are puzzling. Take celibacy, for example.
\nThis can be a choice in life, or a condition imposed by environmental factors.
\nWhile attending a Marriage Encounter Weekend, Tony and Julie listened to the instructor declare, ‘It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other.’
\nHe addressed the men. ‘Can you each name and describe your wife’s favourite flower?’
\nTony leaned over, touched Julie’s arm gently and whispered,<\/p>\n
\naccusing them of harbouring a weapon of ash eruption.<\/p>\n
\n“So what if I can’t spell Armageddon? It’s not the end of the world.”
\nThere must be loads of these…
\n“So what if I can’t spell homicide? It’s not a crime”
\nWhat else, guys?<\/p>\n