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"all gone da yo"

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one 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

In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009