It isn’t big and it isn’t clever, but it is f**king funny
My son is waving a stick in the park and we’re trying to keep him quiet. It’s not that we’re ashamed of his ebullience. It’s just that we’re having a few vocabulary issues at the moment. As a two-year-old, he has not yet mastered the ‘st’ consonant cluster that begins the word ‘stick’, which means his delight at this object is causing him to scream something that sounds very like ‘my dick, my dick!’ to every person we meet.
Other syllables also present issues. He mixes up ‘tr’ sounds with ‘f’ sounds, which is fine when chattering about his trains (‘fains’) or their tracks (‘fax’), but more alarming when the subject turns to his trucks (you get the picture). We lightly correct him so that he doesn’t twig that there’s anything funny or rude about what he’s saying because we don’t want him to start doing it for effect. And that is a real risk because, if I’m being honest, the effect on me is quite pronounced.
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