You just made me laugh out loud in class!

I was afraid to tell my mom as well. I'm glad I wasn't the only one! I was just a really private person when it came to such matters. It seemed kind of embarrassing for me to utter those words to her.

You could sell this story to ABC Family or the Disney Channel.

Mmmm, I don't know. My dog pulls the same maneuver when I want him to do something/go somewhere he doesn't want to. All the sudden he makes his body go limp and he's just a dead weight that refuses to move from his spot!

I love it!

Yeah, but I feel like French may be a little different since there are so many silent letters. I'll stick with my correct pronunciation of carne asada and agua de horchata.

Not to be snarky, but as an honest question: why does it bother you that people try to pronounce the words with the correct accent? I study Hispanic linguistics and although I am from the US and was raised only speaking English, I now cannot bring myself to say Spanish words with an American accent because I am…

I will take this moment to cuddle with my dog.

Read my reply to smithshann.

It's definitely not being used as an insult. The fact is that when someone is involved in the process of learning ANY second (or third or fourth, etc.) language, they develop what is known as an interlanguage. This can be thought of (in very non-complex terms) as a step between their L1 and L2 in which they use…

This reminds me of when my friend or I don't quite put a phrase together correctly for one reason or another. The other person will usually respond by saying, "Oh, that was so ESL!"

I love that the administrator got into it! I LOLed.

No worries. I fake voted for Bush in 2000 as well. Thanks, Catholic school and my republican grandma who convinced me that Republicans were the good ones. That quickly changed when I got to high school and started learning real things.

Here's MY dog, Reggae, getting all up in my space as I am on the computer in bed. Don't worry, Laura, you're not the only one.

As I was reading the first few sentences, I honestly thought this was a tradition your family had. Sounds kind of like some weird version of Wipeout.

My dog is a lab mix. We're not sure what he's mixed with because he really has mostly lab-like features but he is fully grown and only weighs about 45 lbs!

Hahaha this is exactly like my dog. For some reason, every night around 9 or 10 PM he decides it is ABSOLUTELY IMPERATIVE that he run circles around the coffee table and leap over the chair in the living room. It is both perplexing and hilarious.

I made some fettucini Alfredo with chicken and broccoli and yummy croissants!

That is so cute! I love it!

Indeed. Sofia is definitely the regular name, as evidenced by the many Latina women I know named Sofia.