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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 09:19:01 EST
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- From: "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Found in a Toystore
- Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- > What I was looking for were little animal figurines, the kind
- >that are hard and accurately molded.
-
- Good place to look for animal toys is a zoo gift-shop.
-
- > Really, I found more satisfying selections in Dickson
- >Brothers hardware store. (Martin, at 20 months, would love a
- >trash can of his one, especially one with a swivel opening. That
- >would be heaven for him.)
-
- Then *get* him one! He can keep all his other toys in it
-
- >Judith went to Mississippi? The things I miss when I tune out of
- >Words-l for a month or two. I'll bet there are Words-lers out there
- >who don't know who the hell I am.
-
- Yup, I'm in Mississippi, and I know who you are, too!
-
- >Martin, by the way, is still speaking one word at a time, but his
- >vocabulary is expanding rapidly. Our au pair has got him calling
- >apes (gorillas, mostly) "monkeys." She means well,and I
- >haven't the heart to correct her.
-
- Aw, come on...you *owe* it to her to correct her!
-
- >So when I take the little
- >guy to the local Museum of Comparative Zoology, he points to the
- >gorillas and says, "Monkey," and I have to live with that. He
- >also seems to think that the statue of John Harvard is "daddy."
-
- Marya at 19 months had exactly two words, "Daddy" and "Doggy" and
- they both sounded exactly the same. They seemed to refer to all
- male humans and all animals.
-
- >How you folks all doing?
-
- Jes' fine, thank you. Tomorrow I get to spend all day in airplanes
- (and terminals).
-
- >--Rod (turned in his grades)
- love, judith, on vacation
-