Language is a pain in the rear…

Subtleties in language can be everything.

Take, for example, that there is a sort of soft ‘t’ in our language, as well as a harder ‘t.’ An untrained ear probably won’t hear the difference.

Which is why we’ve been mistakenly calling children, anuses for more than a year now. “Hito,” with the soft, lispy ‘t’—child. “Hitto,” with the hard ‘t’—anus.

Imagine. “Hitto, come here.” “Mama, how is your hitto?” “You have a beautiful hitto.” Ugh.