Re: [lojban-beginners] Lojbanic children

[CosmicRay <cr@cosmicray.co.uk>]

On 17 Oct 2012, at 04:42, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

> 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?

It's one to two orders of magnitude more than her immediate peers, and we've got used to the nursery(/kindergarten) she attends a few hours a week excitedly telling us all about her verbal prowess, but I don't know if it's exceptional.  I've heard anecdotal evidence of outliers her age who properly use pronouns, verb conjugations, adverbs, clauses, time references and so on and speak in >10 word sentences.  I'd call *that* exceptional.

>> 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.

Hahaha, brilliant!  So it's probably fair to assume that these names most likely came about from babies' use of them more than (in most cultures) the self-labelling of them by parents first.

kozmikreis

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