Just because my almost-3-year-old is animatedly telling me-- aka "Teacher" all about how mean Ken is being does not mean I am going to let my story get derailed for the second day in a row!!

     E and I were watching something on Public Television the other night.  This chick, Karin Muller, was a world traveler attempting to immerse herself in East Asian culture.  I remember very little about the program itself, however, because I found myself fixated on her speech.  She had that very practiced, NPR-style cadence to her voice.  I actually usually find that sort of tone soothing, but the way she said can't stuck out like a sore thumb: cahn't.  I found myself forgetting the entire context of the sentence every time she said it.  Then she dropped the big bomb:  she said can.  That's right.  Can.  Not cahn. 
     P.O.S.E.R.!!!!

CL