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AIBU in wanting to hear what "adult-isms" your very young toddlers have come up with in the language department?

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travelswithtea · 21/10/2014 14:27

So, I am watching DC attempt putting together consonants and vowels (it is not going well, alas) and was reminded of good friends' twin grandchildren who only recently turned two, and when their grandparents were visiting the other day they heard the following exchange between the girls:

Twin 1: I demand that you allow me my individual time to play with that (points to toy)
Twin 2: You are not in a position to demand anything, young lady.
Twin 1: Oh, you are so infuriating! When will this madness end! (stomps off)

They come from a highly literate family with the parents having never spoken to them in non-adult language, and apparently they come up with these sorts of gems all the time. They were using full sentences etc etc etc really early on, basically from the moment they started talking. :) But I should also think that it is not really that unusual, and lots of kids just happen to have great verbal skills from the get go.

So now I'm interested to hear what adult-isms your very young toddlers have come up with when using "proper" language? (I remember there was a philosophies of children thread on here some time ago, but I'm more interested in actual language use; I'm just wondering what I could look forward to (with any luck, as it ain't looking good right now) with this DC and sentence/vocab construction!)

OP posts:
motherofmonster · 24/10/2014 23:27

When ds was 4 and we visited a great aunts house who was a little bit Of the view that children should be seen and not heard. Ds whispered " i don't like it here mummy" me oh its not so bad, why don't you like it? Ds replied " i think this is where happiness comes to die"

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