The Mederos
Writing about our family, personal lives, professional interests, and occasional wackyness.
Shawn Medero
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11:39:24 am on December 6, 2008 | # |
Martin’s figured out he can swap words around within a sentence and that doing so might provoke a different outcome.
Sometimes it doesn’t work.
I want not go outside
moments later…
I not want go outside
Besides testing his world with language, Martin has many phrases (often used in a socially unacceptable ways) that tend to get a chuckle.
We’ll often be on a busy bus headed home from a long day when Martin will point at someone and say:
I want that guy get off bus.
He enjoys when people get off the bus because the door opens and the floor/ceiling lights come on. Still, these moments make you blush. Last week he at least asked someone to sit next to us.
Along the “that guy” lines, there are a number of inquisitive phrases he uses with either males or females. The pattern is usually:
(WH-word) "that guy" (verb)?What that guy do/doing?
Where that guy go/going?Martin also has a pretty direct approach to asking for stuff:
Hey mommy/daddy read this!
Hey mommy/daddy eat this!
Hey mommy/daddy play trains in my room!It is a fun time to be a parent.
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Britta 5:24 am on December 10, 2008 | #
Hehe cute! You might like these posts by a linguist about his little kid’s adventures in language development - I’m not sure how old his son is, but I like the observations.