When you grow up hearing two or more languages in your home, they tend to form in your ears like different melodies. Certain sounds belong to certain languages and certain sound combinations are probable in one but not so much in the other.
As a result, you might become quite skilled at making up your own words by combining likely sounds and creating an onomatopoetic match with what they are supposed to express.
We often have a good laugh, when Jules, who is particularly prolific with word creations, weaves his poetic nonesense into a tale of what happened at school.
It's hilarious and we never fail to follow him when he tells us that “a bunky kid at school shliddled him over the head with his lunch thingy ding dong.”
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