Learning to speak
Bacon has a hard time with the "V" sound and he tends to avoid it or substitute different sounds for it. Instead of "vanilla" he uses "Tamilla" (the "N" changes to an "M" because, let's face it, "tamilla" just sounds better than "tanilla"). I expect that if he ever tried to go for "Veritable" it would come out like "Terrible" and I don't even want to think what he'd do to "Vertiginous" or "Versimilitude". But give the kid a break, he's only 3.
I myself had problems mastering some phonemes when I was a lad. Specifically I couldn't do the "TR" sound as in "Strum" or "Triangle". Those came out as "Fum" and "Fangle" respectively as I tended to substitute an "F" for the "TR" and whatever might come before it.
You see where this is going? Of course you do.
It was a bit of an embarassment to Mom when we were in a fairly nice restaurant, seated by a window and enjoying a fine meal, when my small but eagle-keen eyes spotted quite the cool lorry driving by. This was a car carrier and my little brain was very excited over the large vehicle carrying an assortment of autos.
"Momma! Fuck! Momma! Fuck!" I cried joyously as I pointed out of the window.
"James Robert! Stop that this instant" replied my less than thrilled mother.
"No, look Momma! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" my small but increasingly voluble voice rang out. I stood up on my chair pointing excitedly as the truck motored out of sight, belting out ever more strident yells of "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"
"James Robert Peacock! You sit down this instant! Oh, my sweet Lord!" The last part was somewhat muffled as her face had lowered into her hands by this time.
As the truck had passed from view I obliged her, trailing off with one last "You see fuck?" as I reclaimed my seat. Mom didn't finish her dinner that night if I recall correctly.
I'm sure you can see now why I'm not overly concerned with Bacon's "V" thing.
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See,the same embarassing thing happend to me at Toy's R Us when Bear (then somehwere arround or close to 2) claimed that he saw a green "fuck".Meaning a FROG of course (how come only I knew what he ment??).And of course EVERYONE in that darn store looked at me,discussted if I may add,while I tried to explain but then gave up,simply hit the road and didn't return to that store for the next century.
Now I know whom he has it from!
But let me tell you....when Burger lets out his famous cry for an BLairPain,the situation doesn't look any better for me.For some reason NOONE EVER looks up (eventhough Burger points up in the air).I bet they all think we gave him some kind of PAIN (keep in mind that the answer to "did mommy/daddy hurt you again?ALWAYS is YES!).
Kids...who need them??:-)
Posted by: LW at January 09, 2004 02:11 PM (fkewd)
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I forgot about the frog incident. Oh, that was a good one. hehe
Lately Burger has dropped the "airplane" in favor of just "plane" which isn't exactly an improvement as the somewhat confusing "BlairPain!" is now the very clear "Pain!"
I understand why some parents keep their kids in the cellar.
Posted by: Jim at January 09, 2004 02:43 PM (IOwam)
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And don't forget about the case of nice J(then about 5 or so)which btw wasn't luck of knowledge on how to put letters together,who had the actuall guts to sit at the table with THREE adults and say "fucking shit".NOOOOOO,said Nana,noway she said that because her dad would split her head open.Welllll,Nana had to admit a week later that J did SO say it because J actually said it to het Mother.Who then,had her swollow soap and WE all got instructions to NEVER mention it to her dad because he INDEED would have split her head open (or most likely just given her a big ole spanking).
Point is:children are wired but parents are just as nuts on occation!LOL
Posted by: LW at January 09, 2004 03:01 PM (fkewd)
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excuse me while I interrupt this family discussion....
I too had a F sound for the TR. One day in a landromat with mom a dump truck went by....
"mommy, look. a dum fuck"
Posted by: MojoMark at January 09, 2004 05:21 PM (E+LQu)
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