A DISTURBING proposal!

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Levi Caddell wrote:

> This reminded of a current siutuation I know about.  A good friend and my
> Martial Arts Instructor has twins.  They have been speaking for about a
> year now.  When playing they seem to use their own language.  They
> understand each other, my Sensei and his wife are lost.
>
> I have heard stories like this before, however, usually these private
> languages between twins go away when they start to socalize more.
Ours have a sister nineteen months older who was already talking our
heads off when the twins started to talk, so they never had incentive
to develop twin-speak. They weren't as fast as their sister (who
spoke in two- and three-word sentences at fourteen months, I have a
speech of hers written down) but faster than average, at least the
average of the kids their age I know. It figures, in a house filled
with talk.

Not that they're not conlanging, but that's just another of their
do-as-the-adults-do games, they don't have anything like a shared
secret code. Yet. I fully expect all the kids to invent secret
writing and communicate in it with sisters and friends, the way I did
in primary school. And even in high school: I had a friend in the
next class up, who was already learning Greek, and she taught me the
alphabet and we used it for secret notes.

   Irina

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