Warning: Cute toddler neologism alert!

[mmcirvin]

Phrases in Jorie's idiolect:

"Tireding" = eye rubbing
"Real Ball" = Katamari Damacy
"Don't kick Daddy" = kick Daddy

All landmasses on maps of Earth are "Africa", as are some landforms on Mars.

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

She also insists on referring to the song "Pop Goes the Weasel" as "All-around-the-cobbler's-bench-the-monkey-chased-the-weasel", which she has some difficulty pronouncing all the way through.

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

We taught my 18 month-old niece a very useful word yesterday, "cheezdoodel".

[mezdeathhead.livejournal.com]

REAL BALL!!!

That's really awesome. Your daughter is cooler than she needs to be.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

She's been exposed to relatively little Katamari since we don't actually have a console that plays it at home. I thought that was a pretty clever coinage.

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

Yeah, is it like, she thinks it behaves in a believable way? Because that's excellent.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

She seems to use the word "real" to describe relatively photorealistic renderings of objects as opposed to more cartoonlike ones. The things in Katamari aren't that photorealistic, but I think the weird, complex visual texture that comes from its being a clump of everyday objects is what wins it the "real" designation. Unless she's thinking of something else entirely.

[samantha2074.livejournal.com]

She's also discovered a new activity: take my diaper off. When I picked up the diaper, I found she had peed in it, which gives us further evidence that she's starting to be aware of having a full diaper.

[(Anonymous)]

I adore cute toddler neologisms; we (du excl) didn't write enough of them down when our kids were tiny. I'll read as many as you transcribe.

When my son was acquiring English phonology he had an ideolectic rule which I called POSTPOSE NASAL. If any syllable in a word had a nasal coda, the nasal would be shifted to the end of the word. "Monkey" was "muckeen", and "grampa" was "gabbun" (that also shows rhotic cluster simplification and intervocalic voicing, both of which he also did productively).