The Real Words

When we took our family vacation to Italy, my older son was eleven. In preparation for the trip we studied up on ancient Rome, Renaissance artists, and learned a bit of Italian. After we had been there for a week, my son suddenly stopped dead in his tracks and said "I just got it."

"Got what?"

"That the Italian people think in Italian. This whole time I thought Italian was just a code that the people in Italy liked to use, but that they knew the real words!"