New word!

[gosling]

Benjamin is now saying "Dadada", clearly in reference to Chip.

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[lifecollage.livejournal.com]

W00t! Has he been saying any Ma- variants yet? If not, it should come shortly, IIRC.

[gosling.livejournal.com]

He says long strings of ma-ma-ma sounds, but they aren't in reference to anything.

[gosling.livejournal.com]

So far he does a lot of ma-ma-ma, la-la-la and ba-ba-ba, mostly when he is slightly bored but not cranky about it.

[drwex]

Just wait. Soon _everything_ will be Dada. I was thrilled when my kids started doing this, until it became clear that the phrase was the new object-identification sound.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

I wonder if this is where the name for the Dada art movement came from...?

[drwex]

I'm guessing you're joking but because it tickled my fancy I went looking and this is what Wikipedia has to say on the topic:

The origin of the name Dada is unclear. Some believe that it is a nonsensical word. Others maintain that it originates from the Romanian artists Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco's frequent use of the words da, da, meaning yes, yes in the Romanian language. Others believe that a group of artists assembled in Zürich in 1916, wanting a name for their new movement, chose it at random by stabbing a French-German dictionary with a paper knife, and picking the name that the point landed upon. Dada in French is a child's word for hobby-horse. In French the colloquialism, c'est mon dada, means it's my hobby.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Remind me to tell you the doggie-daddy story, if I haven't already.

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

You should keep this post and present it to him as a 16th Birthday Gift. That'll surely embarass him at that age!

But for now, that's so cool! verbage! Next on the agenda: the word "no!" (grin)