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Dominic talks to us about all sorts of things. There's sounds that obviously mean something to him, but we haven't worked out what they mean yet. I sat down and made a list of the ones that are identifiable:
Arro - hello
Iya - hiya
BaiBai - bye
Mai - mine
Bowl - bowl
Bawl - ball
Dow - down
Up - up
Up there - up there
Bang - bang
Buc - bucket
Boo - balloons/bubbles
yai-tes - lights
Book - book
Baby - baby
Ahh!
Yay
Uh-oh!
More more - more of whatever
More more - I would like a drink please
No - no
No - nose
Aei - eye
Ess - ears
mow - mouth
Shs - shoes
Dark - dark
Brilliant eh? And doing particularly well with 'B' words.
No "mama" or "papa"?
Sometimes the things they say have completely unexpected but logical meanings.
When our son was young, we learned him we had to carry hime every time we crossed the street. Then one time he ran towards us, hung on our leg, calling: "cross", "cross" (the Dutch version of course ).
It took some time before we realised he meant "please carry me, I am tired". He thought "cross" meant "carry"
Awww, bless!
Glad to see that there are some two-syllable words in his vocab :>
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Posted Feb 28, 2003 by Tango
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My brother was born in switzerland, where my dad works, and goes to a creche ("tage") there, so it's really hard to understand him, because he mixes english and swiss-german.
Tango
Now that *would* be confusing! 
'Cross' Sweet! <excited> He's done that sort of thing a couple of times. The other day we were sitting on a train next to a really cool-looking bloke. Way cool. He was listening to a personal stereo and Dominic was pointing to the man's ears saying 'ess, ess'. The chap was really nice to Dom too!
Mummy and Daddy only come up very occasionally. Hmmmm.
Just thought of a couple of others, though:
Ooof - dog
duc - stuck
Coming thick and fast now.
Tango - I often can't work out what Dom's trying to say, so it must be really tricky when your brother's speaking swiss german on top of English. Wow, a bilingual baby
Anna
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Posted Mar 3, 2003 by Tango
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A combination of English and Swiss German we can just about cope with, as we all speak at least some german. What really bad is that my dad, with my (half) brother has just moved to Hong Kong, where they will stay for about 6 months and then move to Singapore... A quadlingual baby is going to be complicated!!
Tango
 How old is the little chap? There's still a few more languages to collect!
Anna
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Posted Mar 4, 2003 by Tango
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He's 2.5, he won't be in singapore more than 4 years, so where he goes after that, who knows? Hopefully England, but...
Tango
In the end they stick with just one, unless the surrounding is bilingual.
My brother went with his wife and two small children to Iran years ago, there they adopted two baby Iranians. After some years everyons spoke Pharsi and Dutch. Then came Ghomeyni and they had to flee in secret, as 'abduction' of muslim children by Christians probably would result in a death penalty.
Back in Holland they went on with Dutch and forgot Farsi. A few years ago my brother went back with one of the adopted children, neither of them remembered a word of it.
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Posted Mar 4, 2003 by Tango
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Yeah, unless they continue with 2 languages until their teens they usually forget one. Sad, but true... 
Tango
What an amazing story...
(Just thought of another couple 'dor' - door and 'row' - window )
Anna
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