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Sunday, February 08, 2004 

All gone

"Some aspects of language acquisition are puzzling: Children almost always learn to say no before yes and in before on and all children everywhere go through a phase in which they become oddly fascinated with the idea of 'gone' and 'all gone.'"
- bill bryson, the mother tongue: english and how it got that way