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"all gone da yo"

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2009.11.08

The Boy informed us this morning that something was now finished. Mixing English and Japanese, he said, "All gone, da yo!" We've gotta start training him to pick a verbal swim lane, I think. Not sure how to go about that, though.

[edit: 2021.08.03. We moved to Canada a year later. That did the trick.]

rand()m quote

... I'll let you in on a secret. Big people are exactly the same as little people. They're selfish, squabbling children whose motivations are jealousy and greed. No one becomes big when the hit adulthood. They just become better at hiding how small they are.

—Jonathan Rosenberg