I'm not talking about increasing list of English words in my knowledge base. The vocabulary I'm talking about refers to list of words that are part of my kid's ever changing language.
It all started few months back, when Piku returned from Lucknow after a gap of nearly two months. After few hours of display of emotional bonding by Piku (shying away as well as trying to come closer to me simultaneously), he started speaking to me; and all I could do in response, was to nod & smile affectionately.
My nods continued for a week or so, gradually becoming clueless rather than affectionate.
I got so frustrated one day, that I brought one of my friend's daughter (who is around 1 year elder to Piku), and tried to observe if she understood Piku's babbles. Of course, that didn't help. Now there were two kids in the room, both with their unique languages, and I understood neither of them.
I concluded two things out of this:
1 - Every baby builds his own vocabulary.
2 - Never take a baby's help to deal with another baby :)
Surprisingly (& annoyingly), while all I could do was look fooled, wifey seemed to understand everything. She assured me that after sometime, I would be able to decipher the codes....... and she was right again! After a practice of few weeks, my vocabulary also improved. Now me & Piku can (fluently) talk gibberish and still be able to communicate.
Here is a small list of words from Piku's vocabulary. See, how many can you decipher.
Piku's Version - Our Version
Apar - ऊपर
Baa - बाहर
Bho bho - Doggy
Caca - Cow
Choochoo - चाचू
Coke - Clock
Kha - खाना
Kuck - TruckMum - Water / Milk
Moosh - Mouse (aka Tom & Jerry)
Nee - नीचेOta - Auto
Owk - Vomit :D
Paata - पराठा
Shoosh - Shoes
Tight - Light
Tytil - Cycle
6 comments:
:-) We learn a lot from our kids...
Right... we learn each and every day :)
Really Anand,
You describe this so well that I can imagine your situation...he he he.
-Shailendra
Wonderful narration, wish I was there to see this :)
Here are a few from Arv's treasure:
> Bhaa: Bahar (We know this since Arv will also go to the door, and start knocking it, while speaking "Bhaa .. bhaa")
> Pai: Pani (Generally, he will also go to kitchen and stand under the water purifier, trying hard to reach it)
> Pakaau: ? (this code has not yet been deciphered).
@Shailu - Don't laugh.... tumhara bhi din aayega :P
@Rahul - Don't be sad if you can't see such events. I will keep describing them :)
@SVJ - Recently a new phrase got added to the vocabulary: "Bhago bhago"! We get to hear this whenever he sees his mother approaching to change his clothes :D
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