Learning words

["George Scithers" owlswickpress@xxxxxxxx]

The story is told of one family -- with uncles and aunts and so
on -- who decided to teach the family's young 'un as many
languages as possible. So: each person talked to the kid in a
different language. The kid observed all this, apparently thought
it over, and then proceded to start inventing a language of his
own.
The experiment was hastily dropped and the household settled in
one a single language for the time being.

G H Scithers
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I don't know what's in her head, but my then 19 month old
granddaughter happily toddled around the house on her last visit
checking out the words for everything--proudly asserting the
ones she already knew and avidly learning those that were new.