Dobai?
Max has a word we hadn't figured out until recently.
"Dobai." He'll say; "Dobai dobai dobai!!"
Sometimes he'll look at us with the most sober of faces and make a single, bold statement: "DOBAI."
At first we thought he was unduly interested in international politics. (Google might ask "Did you mean Dubai?") Alas, we were at a loss. Until He picked up his beat box toy. You know the one: it has little samples of techno sounds so that he can push a series of buttons and create his own House music and host tiny little raves. There are beats, little exclamations of sound, and a line: "MOVE your body!"
Lets look at some backstory: the language center human brain develops and eventually deteriorates so that by the time we are adults, much of what we hear is based on our own brains filling in the blanks. (This gets stronger as we age, one of the elements that makes learning language easier at younger ages.) Not unlike the word games we pass around on the computer about our brains automatically correcting typos, we can hear a word mis-or partially pronounced to a reasonable extent in our native language and still understand it with no effort at all. Our brain fills in the blanks.
So. Given that fact and given the elementary nature of the simple child's toy, when one listens carefully to the sample described above what one really hears is a barely audible "m" (move your body); the "r" is dropped (move yo body); and the d is so soft as to be barely distinguishable (move yo body). And lets not forget this is House dance music. The word "body" is pronounced with a distinct colloquial flair (move yo bahdy)' and is sampled in such a way that the "y" in "your" sounds very hard, almost like a soft "d" or "b" (move do bahdy).
Two things about Max now: he likes to push the button quickly, because after all, he is mixing a beat. And he is young enough and has little enough language development that he does not yet "fill in the blanks". He learns what he hears. He hears "DO BAHDY" DO BAHDY DO BAHDY DO BAHDY DO BAHDY DO BAHDY DO BAHDY DO BAHDY DO BAHDY DO BAHDY DO BAHDY
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, DoBahy. Phonetically: Dobai.
Kudos to Eric for figuring that one out, after Max chased me up the stairs pushing the button repeatedly.
"Dobai." He'll say; "Dobai dobai dobai!!"
Sometimes he'll look at us with the most sober of faces and make a single, bold statement: "DOBAI."
At first we thought he was unduly interested in international politics. (Google might ask "Did you mean Dubai?") Alas, we were at a loss. Until He picked up his beat box toy. You know the one: it has little samples of techno sounds so that he can push a series of buttons and create his own House music and host tiny little raves. There are beats, little exclamations of sound, and a line: "MOVE your body!"
Lets look at some backstory: the language center human brain develops and eventually deteriorates so that by the time we are adults, much of what we hear is based on our own brains filling in the blanks. (This gets stronger as we age, one of the elements that makes learning language easier at younger ages.) Not unlike the word games we pass around on the computer about our brains automatically correcting typos, we can hear a word mis-or partially pronounced to a reasonable extent in our native language and still understand it with no effort at all. Our brain fills in the blanks.
So. Given that fact and given the elementary nature of the simple child's toy, when one listens carefully to the sample described above what one really hears is a barely audible "m" (move your body); the "r" is dropped (move yo body); and the d is so soft as to be barely distinguishable (move yo body). And lets not forget this is House dance music. The word "body" is pronounced with a distinct colloquial flair (move yo bahdy)' and is sampled in such a way that the "y" in "your" sounds very hard, almost like a soft "d" or "b" (move do bahdy).
Two things about Max now: he likes to push the button quickly, because after all, he is mixing a beat. And he is young enough and has little enough language development that he does not yet "fill in the blanks". He learns what he hears. He hears "DO BAHDY" DO BAHDY DO BAHDY DO BAHDY DO BAHDY DO BAHDY DO BAHDY DO BAHDY DO BAHDY DO BAHDY DO BAHDY
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, DoBahy. Phonetically: Dobai.
Kudos to Eric for figuring that one out, after Max chased me up the stairs pushing the button repeatedly.