When my oldest son was a baby, he made up his own language, dubbed Cameronese. He had frequent ear infections that resulted in a partial hearing loss, causing him to only hear a garbled version of what we were saying, so all of his words were kind of warped versions of real words.
He's now six, but still quite a bit behind in the language development.
Anyway, I know I have to correct words and phrases he says improperly, because if I don't, his speech and vocabulary won't improve much, but I hate to have to do it.
It just cracks me up to hear him talking about a "patteran" (pattern), "cookies" (pronounced with the "oo" sound in "boom"), or when he tells me he wants to "take a haircut" (I can see where he got it from, "get" and "take" are often interchangable).
Don't worry, I do correct him so he can learn to speak correctly, but it breaks my heart a little each time he remembers and says it correctly the first time.
2007-11-04
12:09:30
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