An
English couple adopt a healthy baby boy from Germany
He can walk, eat, sleep,
read and so on, but for some reason the German child never speaks.
The
concerned parents take him to a doctor, who reassures them that as
the German child is perfectly developed in all other areas, there is
nothing to worry about and that he is sure the speech faculty will
eventually blossom.
Years
pass. The German child enters his teens, and still it is not
speaking, though in all other respects he is fully functional.
The
German child's mother is especially distressed by this, but attempts
to conceal her sadness. One day she makes the German child, who is
now 17 years old and still silent, a bowl of tomato soup.
Soon,
the German child appears in the kitchen and suddenly says, "Mother.
This soup has no paprika in it."
The
German child's mother is astonished. "All these years," she
exclaims, "we assumed you could not speak! And yet all
along it appears you could. Why? Why did you never say anything
before?"
"Because,
mother," answers the German child, "up until now,
everything has been satisfactory."...................Bud-Dum-Tum Tisssssh
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