Dorothy picked up some dumbbells. "How heavy are these?" she asked. "It says the number on the side," I told her. "Two?" she read. "Yes," I answered. "Two what?" she said.
Dorothy's teacher sent an email about t-shirts for a school marathon, and I mentioned to Dorothy that I hadn't heard anything about a marathon. Dorothy offered, "We did a marathon at school before, but it was at a different school, but we did one, so I know that a marathon is a real thing."
Dorothy has much to say about various fonts and punctuation:
"I figured out how they show that something is important. They write it thicker."
"I can write it kind of in cursive, I just turn my paper and then write it normally."
"I know what that means because they explain it after the asteroid."
On the first day of March I played some Irish music on my phone while I showered. Dorothy came into the bathroom and asked if it was Irish music, and I was impressed at her guess, and told her yes. A few minutes passed and I turned off the water, and could hear more clearly. "I hate this Pirate music," Dorothy added.
In A Series of Unfortunate Events, a character who is persnickety about grammar jumps out of a window and leaves a note, which suspiciously includes grammatical errors. I was reading the book aloud to Dorothy and I pointed out an error in the note, and pointed out that the villain had also made that same mistake. "What do you think that means?" I prompted. Dorothy gasped: "She's not actually good at grammar!" she accused.