Re: What are mothers for? WAS:Another little translation exercise
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 12, 1999, 20:03 |
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Mia Soderquist wrote:
> Liam's English vocabulary is pretty large, although perhaps a bit
> odd. (He said "gerbil" before he said "papa"
Well, my first word was "kiki" (i.e., kitty), and my friend's was some
distortion of "elephant" (lelephan, probably), she had a stuffed
elephant that she liked to play with. Funny how some children pick up
odd first words. :-)
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