doubling

[flea]

This morning I am thinking about the way babies double sounds when they learn to talk. Aside from the culturally normal mama and dada, Dillo has car-car, ball-ball, and dog-dog. Yesterday he added wa-wa, for water.

Aside from this I am very tired after spending a good 2/3 of yesterday lying down with an upset stomach, coming back to work to a piled up day of stuff, and the continuing Dillo is a nighttime ice weasel problem.

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[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

My little brother used brmmm-brmmm for airplane. Wa-wa for water is pretty common, I think. (There's a chain of quickie marts in NJ called Wa Wa, even.) It may be that he's trying to mimic the word as he hears it, but can't quite wrap his head around the different second syllable yet.