When I was a kid one of my teachers asked me if I'd gotten a boo-boo. "No," I told her, "It's an injury."
My parents always spoke to me as an adult. I'll leave it to you to judge how well it turned out.
My parents always spoke to me as an adult. I'll leave it to you to judge how well it turned out.
That is, except me when I was six... My parents would go to a school meeting and the teachers and other parents would be surprised -- "Oh, you don't speak in written language like your son?".
I guess I had been spending quite a bit more time with books rather than people.
I've sometimes had the same problem. my native language is French, and I mostly learned English by myself with books, computers, and music. Sometimes when I spoke, it sounded more like something a character in a book would say than what a typical person would.
Exposure to more flesh-and-blook Anglophones has mostly fixed that, though.