For Valentine’s day, we delivered cookies and hand-painted valentines to our extended family. Ryan is learning a nursery rhyme at school, one that I’d never learned when I was a kid, and he sang it for his grandparents and aunts and uncles:
Little ducky Duddle
Went swimming in a puddle,
Went swimming in a puddle quite small.Said he “It doesn’t matter
If I splash or splatter;
I’m just a ducky, after all. Quack quack!”
Of course, Ryan didn’t have it all down, so he sung the following abridged & revised version:
All duckies live in puddles;
We’re living in a puddle.
I’m just a little ducky after all, quack quack!
Personally, I like the modus ponens feel of Ryan’s version, even if it’s not a rigorous proof. And his audience didn’t mind one whit.