Language acquisition
Magda: It says here that Rudolph Valentino’s wife had 500 pairs of shoes!
Adam: SHUUUZ.
Me: That’s a lot of shoes.
Adam: SHUUUZ.
Magda: Oh, no, wait, it was Valentino who had 500 pairs of shoes.
Adam: SHUUUZ.
Magda: He had 350 suits and 500 pairs of shoes…
Adam: SHUUUZ.
Me: That seems like an odd proportion of suits to shoes.
Adam: SHUUUZ.
Magda: Well, you don’t wear a suit all the time, but no matter what you wear, you’re wearing shoes.
Adam: SHUUUZ. JUUUUICE…
D and I had a conversation uncannily like that this very morning. Well, I don’t rightly know what he was saying because, you see, I was wearing my shiny new shuuz. Shuuz. SHUUZ.
(Actually, they were boots. It vas somsing about “boots, boots, boots.”)
Comment by Elsa — Tuesday 19 September 06 @ 05.30 MDT+2.00
You didn’t note any changes in tone or pitch in Adam’s input in the conversation, but I like to imagine that it was with a growing desperation and sharp rises in pitch that he spoke.
Comment by jdog — Wednesday 20 September 06 @ 01.10 MDT+2.00