It never ceases to amaze me; how I’ve been speaking English for about 33 or so years now but still find myself putting together new combinations of words that I’ve never put together before.
For example, I just now said to my wife “I’ll take the basket, for the basket contains pizza”.
The context in unimportant. The point is I know I’ve said all those words in other sentences before, but not once out of hundreds of thousands of sentences spoken in my lifetime have I ever had occasion to put them together in this way before.
This phenomenon has become more apparent since I became a father, too
Recent parenting-related gems include “Son, don’t lick the table”, “We don’t eat things we find in the carpet in this house” and “why is your mouth blue?”
