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From: greg@olivee.UUCP (Greg Paley)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Nice things about kids
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Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 11:39:22 EDT
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> 
> One nice thing about kids is the way they can make you look in 
> new ways at language.
> 
> For instance, my first one, who is now 18, developed her own
> word at the age of 3.  The word was puh-buh-buh.  It was a really
> handy word which denoted a change of state in an object.  For
> instance, "puh-buh-buh door" meant "open the door" or "shut the
> door", depending on its current state.  She used this with "water",
> "book", "light", "TV", "music", and anything else that had two states.
> Ever since then, I've thought English should have this word--why
> don't we?
> -- 
> 
>                                      Sue Brezden
>                                      ihnp4!drutx!slb
> 

When my older son (now 5) was 1 1/2 to 2, he used his own word
"ga-da-da" to fill in for anything he didn't really know.  For
example, if you pointed to pictures of animals in a book, he'd
know and say "dog", "cat", "monkey", etc., but if you pointed to
an unfamiliar animal or object he'd call it "ga-da-da".

These words have definitely their own rules and access privileges -
if either my wife or I would say "ga-da-da", he'd really snort
and laugh at us for being silly enough to try using his word
without understanding the full depth and ramifications of it.

	- Greg Paley