lizv@tektools.UUCP (Liz Vaughan) (10/29/85)
A "made-up" word my sister and I still use (even in polite company :-) is "bitzer" for zipper. This is also handy as a verb - when getting undressed, you can ask someone to help "disbitz" you.
rggoebel@water.UUCP (Randy Goebel LPAIG) (11/03/85)
Okay, I just can resist a few of my children's choice offerings for language. These have more to do with concept naming than new words, but are still interesting: hockey-game-feet, another name for ice skates. heavy, transitive verb, to carry, e.g., "I'm tired, will you heavy me?" how many, somewhere between "a few" and "too many"; sort of a 2 yr old's version of aleph null.
woof@hpfcla.UUCP (11/06/85)
Our daughter uses words in interesting ways. For example:
"Becky, what are you doing?"
"Anything."
Another useful word is "scaried", as in, "Mommy, I'm scaried!"
Steve Wolf Hewlett-Packard Company
{ihnp4|hplabs}!hpfcla!woof Fort Collins, Coloradowoof@hpfcla.UUCP (11/10/85)
A new word popped up in my 3-year-old's vocabulary last week, brought on
by Winter. She has decided to call icicles "snowstrings".
Makes sense to me!
Steve Wolf Hewlett-Packard Company
{ihnp4|hplabs}!hpfcla!woof Fort Collins, Coloradocolonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (11/10/85)
I like "timulsameous." (3rd grade and up!)
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Col. G. L. Sicherman
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BI: csdsicher@sunyabvaco175fat@sdcc3.UUCP (Kevin Baird) (12/03/85)
If you're interested in learning more about the development of a child's language, I recommend Kornei Chukovsky's FROM TWO TO FIVE, an entertaining and informative book. Several words, phrases, and concepts make sense, just as "showstrings" makes sense. It reminded me of a few of the words my mother tells me I invented.