Toddler Linguistics, part the nth

[nmg]

An account of a conversation while waiting at bus stop with ias and the garklet:
garklet My1 like coiley-wotey. ias What's coiley-wotey? garklet Coiley-wotey! nmg Colley Wotty? garklet Coiley-wotey! nmg What sort of a thing is coiley-wotey! garklet *pause* Coiley-wotey! ias He's making this word up. nmg Are you making this word up? Is this another silly word? garklet No, coiley-wotey! ias How big is coiley-

Comments

[watervole]

He's not wolf, he's a coyote...

[nmg]

Canine taxonomy is possibly a little beyond him at the moment.

On the other hand, I don't recall having described Wile E. Coyote as a wolf at any point, so he's worked that much out by himself. Colour me impressed.

[lionsphil]

The kid has at least developed a proper appreciation for the engineer of the Looney Tunes line-up.

(Sigh. Obligatory XKCD.)

[watervole]

LOL! I thought I'd read all of XKCD, but I seem to have missed that one.

[bohemiancoast]

Why are you trying to correct verbal tics and mispronunciations? They sort themselves out of their own accord and you will remember them fondly.

Mind you, how we laughed when we got Marianne to read out loud to us and she put an r in the middle of mascot.

[wednesdayschild]

It might say something about me that I realised he meant Wile E Coyote without the prompts... :s

[nmg]

Heh. Please accept this award for Toddler Understanding.

[opadit]

Verbal tic, eh? My username here is a verbal tic of my daughter's when she was a toddler.

[nmg]

Indeed - "open it", if I recall.

[opadit]

Yes -- and infinitely easier to spell than "uppa-tayah," which meant "up the stairs."

[drdoug]

Lovely. I do like 'Roadroader' - absolute classic toddlerism.

[nmg]

Also, I love the way the coiley-wotey is almost a Spoonerism.