The Naming of Things

[fairdice]

I love watching language acquisition in kids. A, now two and a half, still provides occasional gems.

So he's been reading D's old copy of A Pocket for Corduroy, with D's name (written in 4-year-old block caps) inside the front cover. We read the name to him the first time, and now that he knows what it says, every time he opens the book he

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[electrictruffle]

Right now, L.'s most understandable word is 'kitty'.

It looks as though A has managed to speak around your obfuscation of D's name :)

-ETR

[fairdice]

(I spent an apallingly long time trying to retell the story without names and simply couldn't do it. So it goes.)