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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, my first said everything before mommy. I feel like there's some anthropological linguistic observation that people often don't have a word for something that is extremely basic or omnipresent. Like some insular groups don't have a word to identify their own group. Or in the Bible where God says "I am I am" to Moses (or however that's translated). No need for a word -- you just are. I never took a linguistics class or an anthropology class or a theology class, so I may be totally making any or all of this up. [/quote] That's what I've been wondering -- the lack of a label for someone omnipresent.[/quote] Interesting. My daughter's first words were "Hi Daddy!" Because DH was gone a lot and I was home with her a lot more at that age, we talked about "Daddy" a lot. My son says mama, but it's unclear whether he means me. He starts saying it when my dad (who handles childcare) shows up, too, so who knows.[/quote]
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