Saturday, February 23, 2008

Creative Linguistics

Like most two-year-olds, Andrew has his share of creative word formations. Some of my favorites (all of which have been in evidence this week) include jagwater (for jaguar--he likes to play the online Fischer-Price alphabet game which presents animals for each letter of the alphabet), flamingo juice (no, not made from actual flamingos--from mangos), and marshmellons (for marshmellow).

The great thing about talking with toddlers (especially once they start to be more or less intelligible) is that they're seldom predictable and therefore usually funny. After we picked Dan up from work yesterday at BYU, Dan asked Andrew if he wanted to go to BYU. (A strange question for Dan to ask, since he's usually at least a bit mocking of those who went there). Andrew said, "No, I'm too little."

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