They live abroad and have one baby already and are expecting another. I love my daughter to bits but worry that she is dumbing down herself rather than helping her less educated partner, by doing things like mispronouncing words, not bothering to find out what she doesn't know etc. She talked about a magazine 'prescription' rather than 'subscription' for example. Her speech has also become lazier, like his. He works hard for his family, and they want their daughter to be bilingual, but I see he is using the same word (eg the word for water) to describe many different things, such as streams and rivers, presumably because he doesn't know what they in anything other than English. I worry that my granddaughter is not getting the best start here, and that my daughter is allowing it to happen, just so her partner doesn't feel any more inadequate than he already does. How should I proceed? Say nothing? My daughter is very touchy on this subject and it is hard to talk to her about it.
2006-08-01
03:30:20
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