Bilingual Brain

Bilingual children are a trip. Jason's brain is all messed up -- now he can read (in Thai) and he is fluent at speaking Thai. He can understand English (though he never speaks it) and whenever he writes -- he wants to write in English.

Furthermore, when writing in English, he often writes nonsense words, but he does so with careful deliberation and great sense of purpose. Recently, he drew a picture of two cartoonish characters, and then he labeled the drawing:

JASON

DADDY

OXICN . . . . .

then he paused, scratched his head, thought deeply, changed the "N" to an "M", and then completed the word he was trying to spell:

OXICMD

What the world needs is a little more OXICMD!