I’ve always marveled how some of the smartest people I know are lousy spellers. Isn’t that odd? I got this note from T just this morning after she had held up the Serbian slippers that Tin was wearing and a pair she is bringing home for me:
we are coming with eastern european sleepers
A parapraxis maybe, but I call it phonetical confusion brought on by being raised with a language where you spell what you say and just like people try to pronounce Tin after Tatjana has said it and end up saying “teen” instead of Tin, so to slippers are sleepers in Zsa Zsa speak. However, all of this belies the fact that in reality the “sleepers” are returning as there has not been a nap held in the LaLa since they left.