What babies mean by 'this' and 'that'

[sethstarkaddersmum]

Am trying to learn ds2's language - he's nearly 1.

I had a breakthrough today wrt the difference between 'iss' (this) and 'dat' (that).

Iss means something he wants and dat means something he doesn't want - he will use iss when he holds something up to show your or holds out his hand for it going 'Iss! Iss!'.
Whereas he says 'Dat' disdainfully and drops the thing on the floor.

There is no possible reason why anyone else would be interested in this, I don't know why I posted it

I forgot to address the topic question ...sorry ....DD says "OOOhhhhhhh THIS!" to anything that she finds interesting or exciting or really really lovely, and only ever in this way, tone and context - no sign of that yet!

Oh these all so lovely :)

Has reminded me that DS used to clap his hand to his forehead dramatically and say 'oh no' when something had gone wrong. So so cute

Very cute stories.

DS is 10 mo and so just beginning to make sounds that could be words. No this or that yet though.

DS is nearly two and has never said 'this' or 'that' though. His first word was "look" so he used that and pointing to much the same effect.

Interesting that success/failure is a common early word. "Oh no!" is by far DS' favourite thing to say. And "Ray!" (hooray) for success, but oh no is the big one.