Re: [lojban-beginners] Lojbanic children

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

Just checked - I meant "preschool" and not "kindergarten" btw - neither term is all that common here :-)



On 17 Oct 2012, at 07:33, CosmicRay <cr@cosmicray.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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