Abigail has a fascination with words of any sort...hence the fact that she has been reading (as in, really reading) for a year or so now. She also has a pretty extensive sign language vocabulary, and has recently added to her interests the art of making up her own words. Some recent additions are "badip" (pronounced BAD-ipp), which means to march up the stairs like a soldier, and "dashable", which means something that makes your tummy growl. These aren't one-time-use words; she includes them as part of her regular vocabulary.
She also recently complained that "Mommy, I want to see [whatever it was]!!!" When I reminded her that she had already had a turn, she thought for a minute and then matter-of-factly replied, "Oh yeah. Well, Mommy, 'I want to' actually means 'I already did'."
This past weekend she drew a picture for Bruce and wrote on it "Sid Dei", which, she explained, is properly pronounced "Side Day". She also explained that it looks like "sid" but is pronounced "side" because "Sid Dei" is Spanish for "To Daddy."
Recently she was saying a word that I just couldn't figure out, so I asked her to spell it. With a very put-out tone (due to my denseness), she said "Mommy, V-O-L-U-M-E, that's what I said." Well. Okay then.
Yesterday evening for about half an hour she decided that we could only talk in sign language, without speech. She went from the heretofore randomly-used single-word signs to stringing all of the signs into complete sentences, and even fingerspelling a few words for which she didn't know the signs.
Perhaps we'll be starting Latin sooner than we had originally planned...
Monday, January 26, 2009
Linguistic prowess
Abigail has a fascination with words of any sort...hence the fact that she has been reading (as in, really reading) for a year or so now. She also has a pretty extensive sign language vocabulary, and has recently added to her interests the art of making up her own words. Some recent additions are "badip" (pronounced BAD-ipp), which means to march up the stairs like a soldier, and "dashable", which means something that makes your tummy growl. These aren't one-time-use words; she includes them as part of her regular vocabulary.
She also recently complained that "Mommy, I want to see [whatever it was]!!!" When I reminded her that she had already had a turn, she thought for a minute and then matter-of-factly replied, "Oh yeah. Well, Mommy, 'I want to' actually means 'I already did'."
This past weekend she drew a picture for Bruce and wrote on it "Sid Dei", which, she explained, is properly pronounced "Side Day". She also explained that it looks like "sid" but is pronounced "side" because "Sid Dei" is Spanish for "To Daddy."
Recently she was saying a word that I just couldn't figure out, so I asked her to spell it. With a very put-out tone (due to my denseness), she said "Mommy, V-O-L-U-M-E, that's what I said." Well. Okay then.
Yesterday evening for about half an hour she decided that we could only talk in sign language, without speech. She went from the heretofore randomly-used single-word signs to stringing all of the signs into complete sentences, and even fingerspelling a few words for which she didn't know the signs.
Perhaps we'll be starting Latin sooner than we had originally planned...
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She already gets in her requisite 30,000 words a day so adding another language or two gives an advantage.........right?!
Oh my! As if you didn't already have enough to keep up with! That is certainly impressive. :o)
Abigail is so amazing. All the words in the dictionary were made up by someone at sometime and she seems to have a clear definition for what her words mean...
May be that webster will have some competition. What a little smartie. Love Gram
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