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From: jkr@gitpyr.UUCP (John Kenneth Riviere)
Newsgroups: net.kids,net.comics
Subject: Re: Kids words
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Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 22:40:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 25 22:40:00 1985
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In article <935@decwrl.UUCP> merrill@raja.DEC writes:
>RE: kids words:
>>These words have definitely their own rules and access privileges -
>>if either my wife or I would say "ga-da-da", he'd really snort
>>and laugh at us for being silly enough to try using his word
>>without understanding the full depth and ramifications of it.
>>	- Greg Paley
>
>He was probably laughing at anyone who would take his nonsense filler
>word seriously enough to think that there were ANY "full depth and
>ramifications" thereunto. :-)
>	Rick Merrill

There was an excellent comic book which was done several years ago
by Sheldon Meyer called _Sugar_and_Spike_ for which the basic premise
was that all babies can naturally speak and understand "baby talk".
Once "grown up" language was learned "baby talk" was forgotten.  I
never really appreciated it until I had a child of my own, but I
really enjoy it now.  Fortunately there appears to be some renewed
interest in the title as DC Comics has done several reprint digests
in recent years featuring the strip as well as having some new stories
done, still by Sheldon Meyer.  The stories involve not atypical baby
behavior with explanations of what they are really thinking provided
by their baby talk conversations.  Highly recommended.

-- 
John Kenneth Riviere
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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