We can't say he is totally talking yet but somewhere between Monday and Tuesday this week it started to sound like his dangling participles stopped dangling. His outbursts found inner meaning. His conjunctions found their function. His one syllable remarks have grew exponentially.
Language is definitely taking shape. He now puts multiple noises together when pointing at things and there definitely seems to be meaning behind his primitive clauses.
Atom's progress made me think of a recent bit of useless knowledge I came across. Prarie Dogs recently were found to actually be capable of complex communications with each other. What sounds like merely a bunch of chrips and barks to us is actually a rich and layered structured language. We simply can't hear it (or understand it). Even if we could understand it, we don't have the tonal spectrum to even hear it. Could it be that way with babies? They start out with cries, grunts, coos, clicks, pops and snorts (seemingly rudimentary communication tools) and then dummy themselves down to the English language?
English has an incredible amount of inconsistencies and plain stupid rules when you think about it. The multiple meanings the word desert(depending on what syllable you put the accent on), the use of an apostrophe, and I'm also talking about you "who/whom".
The language has gotten so out of control that hardly anyone seems to even speak it correctly anymore. Sorry Mom, "ain't" is so accepted that my spell check didn't even blink when I just used it.
But I digress.
I can only assume this isn't going to be the last time my son and I have a hard time understanding each other. But I know, as is the case now, that no matter how confusing language gets at least I am confident we will always "get each other".
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