1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and Super Mega

[wayfaringwordhack]

 

It is funny to note that all three of my kids have begun counting this way, only in French: un, deux, trois, cinq, huit... They have all felt that 4, 6, and 7 were somehow not that important, at least not at first. After neuf and dix have been tack on, 6 is usually the next one to be accepted in the ranks, and 7 the last. :P

Sprout's favorite adjective of the moment is "mega" with especially special things being "super mega."

Being out of touch with anglophone slang (and francophone, for that matter), I ask you is this perhaps the current equivalent of "rad" / "awesome" / "wicked"?

(also on LJ, comment where you like)

Comments

[asakiyume]

When you say "have begun counting this way," do you mean when they first started counting, each one in turn?

I wonder if other French speakers are similar! I wonder if there are numbers in the first ten that English speakers tend to leave out!

Whatever else it is, "super mega" is excellent personal slang, and I think everyone should have a store of that. I like to use the prefix "maha," which I gathered from words like "maharajah" and "Mahatma" means "great," when I'm buying big sizes of things. I'll write "maja oil" meaning I have to get a big container of oil.

[wayfaringwordhack]

Yes, I mean spaced out, over the years, as each one of them started counting things. :) I will have to ask other parents about their kids' counting. My mother-in-law probably won't remember how her boys started. :P

Maha is great and I love your usage of it. I am sure to think of that when I make my grocery lists now.

[rimturse]

The younger generation here were saying mega a few years ago, not sure if they still do it, though. I'm hopelessly out of touch. :p