My 2-year old niece has a language of her own, like all children do. Sometimes I wonder children design their language to maximally annoy the adults.
Because my niece I know for a fact can most definitely pronounce certain words and phrases in isolation. As a part of her 'language' though she consistently mispronounces it, to sound more childlike, and perhaps to be more adorable. I correct her and she gets it right every time, but appears to cherish when people make fun of her for being funny with the rolls of are and misses at the 's'esses.
Cool thing about children's languages is seeing the progression of them figure out the intricacies of relationships. Children eventually figure out that the world doesn't exist with a single perspective (me, me, me) and everybody has a first-person language, and you change the voice when you're talking about other people and also there's different relationships between other people and what they call one another, and it's possible to take advantage of that. It seems actually that all of childhood behavior originates from trying to take advantage of various nuances of human relationships.
Fun stuff.
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