I used to think that groups of college friends had the most inside jokes, but they have nothing on toddlers, whose speech even more closely resembles a mishmash of everything they've ever heard or (had) read (to them). Here Alex combines his favorite tasks, car placement and repetitious book quoting; Olé is, of course, what Puddle the Pig says when he is jumping into Woodcock Pocket Pond after getting a postcard from his friend Toot in Spain. Naturally, the river/lake/ocean on their Ikea playmat (thanks Uncle Rodney and Aunt Juliette) is a fine place for backhoes, police cars, etc. to Olé into (sometimes the boys Olé into it themselves, and have to be rescued). As often now, the video ends when the boys come around to the other side of the camera to... watch it.
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Miss Sarah: If you go into your blogging tool and get to the place where you can directly edit the HTML (I think there's an "Edit HTML" tab in Blogger while you're writing a post, maybe?), you may be able to use little HTML codes for special characters. (I used to have to do this when I was an online editor.)
Example: If you want the little accent that points...um, southwest to northeast?...where you'd normally type the "e," type "é" instead. So type this:
é
for the "e" and see if it works. It should produce an e with an acute accent. Wait, I'm going to see if it does it in this comment.
Aha! It worked. Okay, now I have to figure out how to show it to you instead of typing it.
Type the letters "eacute" with an ampersand at the beginning and a semicolon at the end. Like this:
[ampersand]eacute[semicolon]
You can use the same kind of code to get umlauts and the little curly thing under "façade" and stuff. The key is to make sure you're editing the HTML.
There's a full list here:
http://www.thesauruslex.com/typo/eng/enghtml.htm
Thanks, Linda. This is actually Mr. Sarah writing incognito (doh!-- I think I just blew my cover). Easier still than the HTML approach is using the language bar to switch your keyboard to US International for momentary foreign digressions, assuming you have yourself all set up for that (which, being one of those artsy-fartsy types, I of course do). And if your foreign digressions are more than momentary...GO BACK TO FRANCE!!
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