Nephew Cashel bluntly told my brother Brendan (his dad), “I have informed a new language. Which is part Chinese, part French, part Italian, part English, part German, and part sign language. It’s called Papahcoahlo.” (Or something like that. The name of the language sounded distinctly Hawaiian, and Cashel had “informed” this language out of all other languages, including sign language.)
The thing that impressed Brendan the most was Cashel’s word choice: “I have informed a new language.”
Brendan’s response to me about this was: “Woah. Okay, Chomsky.”
