Re: [lojban-beginners] Lojbanic children

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:43:09AM +0100, CosmicRay wrote:
> My 17-month old has a working vocabulary of around a thousand
> words  or so 

0.o

That's a bit exceptional, no?

> but still reverts to calling her mother "mama" when she's very
> tired or upset, it definitely isn't babbled and definitely isn't
> something we've taught her.  Interesting phenomenon that it's so
> widespread :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_and_papa says that it's basically
"that's what kids say, and everybody assumes it's about them".
Except, according to that page, the Japanese, who assume it's about
food.  I find that pretty hilarious, for some reason.

-Robin

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