Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for March 16, 2008
Transcript:
Noises: Waaa MAMA WAAA!! Wally: How's it going? Joan: Luci's been crudding all over me... Max is tantruming big-time and I'm hormoning like crazy. Andy: Nice verbing, Aunt Joan. Wally: Complete and total verbicide. Kind of surprises me that a professional writer like you could succumb to making up nonsense words that - ... we'll just take these kiddos off your hands. Joan: Good, because I was about to start meltdowning all over you.
You are not ‘making up nonsense words’ when your audience understood everything you said. You are COMMUNICATING. Creatively.