Typical Conversation

K, drying off Alex after shower, finds him cranky. So he wraps him like a monk in the towel and starts singing Monty Python: "pie jesu domine, pie deus requiem...[bonk]".
Alana asks, "what's that?"
Keith, distracted: "Latin."
"What's Latin?"
"A language spoken by the Romans."
"Who were they?"
"They had a big empire."
"Whats a vampire?"
"An EMpire is a bunch of countries that are run from a single place. This was run by a ruler called a Caeser."
"Oh. And he talked liiike thaaat?" (she says, in a creditable Pythonesque drone, albeit 2 octaves higher)
"Well, I don't know what he sounded like, but he spoke that language. Then the Catholic church adopted it."
"Why didn't they like it?"
"Hunh? They did like it. Oh, to adopt means to start using. They liked it because lots of people could understand their services if they used that language."
"Oh." Blank expression, wheels clearly turning. Then she got distracted, but I'll be interested to see where that turns up next .

Distinguishing...

K - "That's the distinguisher...how we tell the difference."
Alana - "but that's not a container with foam in it."
K- "Huh?"
Alana - "A distinguisher. To put out fires."
K- "Oh! Extinguisher. No, to distinguish means to tell the difference. To 'Extinguish' is to put out a fire." (we had recently talked about fire extiguishers and looked at our kitchen extinguisher)