merrill@rex.DEC (10/21/85)
My twin girls developed some words of their own. Some of which I thought were superior to the "correct" english word: When all the inlaws came to visit they would say, "Wholebody Here!" Rick Merrill Posted: Mon 21-Oct-1985 09:17 (Maynard_Time) To: NET$KIDS
jkr@gitpyr.UUCP (John Kenneth Riviere) (10/26/85)
In article <934@decwrl.UUCP> merrill@rex.DEC writes: >My twin girls developed some words of their own. Some of which I thought >were superior to the "correct" english word: >When all the inlaws came to visit they would say, "Wholebody Here!" > Rick Merrill In a similar fashion my two-years-old daughter came up with "twobodies" which means any two (sometimes more) people. Seems reasonable to me. -- John Kenneth Riviere Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!jkr
beth@gymble.UUCP (Beth Katz) (10/26/85)
Our favorite made-up-but-better-than-the-real word is "flutterby". We've used that since my siblings and I were very young. I'm amazed that we still use the made-up words even though we are all adults now. Of course we only do that when around family. We all know the real words. :-) Sometimes "aminal" and "wapoo" (for apple) sneak out when we least expect them. Beth Katz
hxe@rayssd.UUCP (Heather Emanuel) (10/31/85)
A friend's child, who is amazingly sensitive to others anyway, has come up with two words that I find myself using constantly: Hen'-na-don'-nic (phonetic, obviously): Anything used to `cure' someone's pain. After my knee operation, she was constantly running for hennadonnics (toys, flowers, etc.) to lay on my knee. She's especially gentle with headaches. Back'-a-do-nee: A place that's unreachable, as in "the kitty's in the backadony" (e.g., behind a chair). I think of it in somewhat more philosophical terms.... Cute kid quote - My three-year old cousin talking to my mother after running away from the ocean spray: "Aunt Maud, wipe away my ocean tears..." Awwww -- --Heather Emanuel {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, raybed2} rayssd!hxe -------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't think my company *has* an opinion, so the ones in this article are obviously my own. -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Ain't life a brook... Sometimes I feel just like a polished stone" -Ferron
sed408@ihlpg.UUCP (Dugan) (11/04/85)
{various cute baby-talk phrases} My daughter came up with "long day ago" to mean a time in the distant past and "last day" to mean yesterday. I always thought "long day ago" sounded rather poetic. -- Sarah E. Dugan "Easy Does It, But *DO* It" ########################################################################### # AT&T Bell Labs IH 2B-243 The Forest (home) # # Naperville-Wheaton Rd. 1353 Crab Apple Court Apt. 101 # # Naperville, Illinois 60566 Naperville, Illinois 60540 # # (312) 979 - 6360 (312) 355 - 0445 # ###########################################################################
barb@oliven.UUCP (Barbara Jernigan) (11/07/85)
My favoritist of favorite words is misled. Note: most of you read it as mis-led, didn't you? Well, it's not, it's mi-suled (long i). Much more impact to say, I've been mI-suled, isn't it? Well, *I* think so. And then there's fa-ka-dee (facade). Barb