do californians speak another language?

I don't know. And I bet you don't know that either. In reading groups today we read a story about a mouse being chased by a cat. And at the end the mouse narrowly escapes and ends up in the hole in the wall dramatically panting. I asked them if they knew what the word panting meant. And one of my boys said, "No, I don't know what a lot of words mean. I'm from California." Uh. . . so. . . apparently what he's saying is that in California they speak a different language. I want to say that this explains a lot of things. But I'm not so sure it really does.