Ha anyone ever sat and listened to a little child speak, to some of the saying that they come up with over time as they are develpoing their conversatioanl skills.

My cousin as she was growing up always said

Saying Interpretation
Lellow Lissan - Yellow Nissan
Backroom Cleaner - Vaccuum Cleaner
Out da backenyard - Out the backyard
I tell my mum off - I'll tell my mum on you
Don't look to me for - Don't look at me

My own son has a few phrases he uses but nothing like me cousin.

My son favourite phrase when you ask him to do something ( he is 3 years old) I can't, I busy on the puter room.......where he gets that from I will never know :rolleyes: :D :eek: :p

~Torana

oww bless 'em. i love children speaking. my nearly five year old cousin cannot speak very well yet (don't ask) and she calls a baby "deedee." and god knows what else, i cannot begin to understand what she actually means, haha. i had to sit for about an hour with her telling my knock knock jokes such as this.
"knock knock"
"who's there?"
"a bid deedee"
"a big deedee who?"
"a bug deedee gifa fring hadnfng"
and then she would burst out laughing and start all over again with a new one!
owww kids eh,
Heather

My Mom was talking with my 2 year old niece the other day and it went something like this.
Niece: Hi Nana (her name for her other Grandmother)
Mom: No this is Grandma.
Niece:....
Mom: Can you say Grandma?
Niece: Nanagammamama ... Dada?

hahahaha that is funny.

My 19 month old calls my father Popup. It sounds so cute though ^_^

~Torana

Here's one for you that had us rolling on the floor.
My nine year old was going through a period of not wanting much to eat. One day at tea a few months back she ate everything on her plate and then more. When we commented that it was good to see her not fussing over her meal she turned to us proud as punch and said 'I think I've got my attitude back.'
She meant appetite if you're wondering and it certainly had us crying. *sigh* How true about the attitude though.

Hahaha, maybe I could borrow her attitude then!

I could never say Grandma or Nana or something when I was a kid and call my mums mum Narnie. I still do at the age of twenty two and a bit!

And myt friends child had me in shock!

She wanted a craker off the counter and I said that she had better ask mum (speaking about my friend) and she replied: "aw for F@!#'s sake! My jaw dropped! I could not believe it! It's amazing what kids can pick up, even if they repeat something that is said in frustration and not very often!

lol that is funny DB, and Sayso I think that is hilarious about her saying attitude instead of appetite lol.

I had a simailar incident with an uncle of mine on the weekend DB, everyone kept saying f off and well when they were leaving my uncle yelled it out the window of his car and my son, very kindly replied with the same words and I was in that much shock I simply stood there and laughed.
He also has bad road rage whihch is kinda funny on long trips as he sits in the back seat and yells out "Get off the road" at the cars infront of us and also says quite fluently, "It's not Sunday. Move it..." hopefully he loses it before he is old enough to drive a car.....lol

~Torana

lol.

Okay, bear in my mind I'm all white and bilingual before reading the madness kids ask me...

My all time favorite question from a kid, aged about 5 I think, was in Japanese - "What's hard gay in English?"
With the words hard and gay already in English...
I've also had, "Do you have a black santa Claus?", "Is it true white people can't do math because they have no number '0'?" and the one that had me totally stumped, "Why do white people have big noses?"

LMAO! LMAO! LMAO! HAHAHHAA, now I really want to go to Japan!!!!!

hahahahahahahaha that is funny.

I really hope I'm not asked those questions when I'm in China. I wouldn't be able to stop laughing.

Yeah I would probably do the same thing Domoviye, that would be pretty embarressing too.

~Torana

hahah lastnight my 4 year old was crying because I wouldnt give her junkfood before bed. When she finally calmed down, she informed me that her tears were like a volcanos hot lava. I thought that was pretty cute. She also told me during easter break that her and her friend lay eggs. Dont ask where that came from hahaha

hahahahahaha that is funny....don't ya just love the things that kids come out with!? lol

~Torana

when i was in high school my friends baby sister couldnt say my name so she used to refer to me as "wooly"......
worked for her i guess

I used to say get truck and a certain rhyming profanity mixed up.

*sniggers...*

lol I ams ure that you aren't the only one with that one Frost lol

My brother and I used to get these gummy candies that were covered in sugar and so sour it made your mouth pucker.
So we'd be eating them and sometimes say "Pucker Power". Only since we were little kids, speaking quickly, and with our mouths twisted up due to the sour taste, it didn't come out like that.

*sniggers, again*

Something Mason says now that cracks me up BIG TIME when his food is too hot to eat.

"You have to use the fam mommy, cause it's fargy farg!"

"The fam is fargy farg, use the fam mommy. Use the fargy farg fam!"

I don't know where he got it from but yeah it is so damn cute and hilarious.

When I was little and my foot would fall asleep I would tell everyone around me, "My foot has a fever."

Nobody could understand me. So, I would just repeat it over and over again until one day they finally got that I was saying that the tingling in my foot was a fever.

<laughing> You have to learn their language, then hope you can teach them to learn YOURS! :D

hahaha I am slowly learning their language. Like Mason as a little tacker would say

Num - for a drink
Nummy num - for food
Nummy nums nummy nums - for his balnkies

lol everything was num and nummy just took a month to work it all out lol :p

My one year old cousin is starting to speak and can say a few words. He likes to bang pots for fun, so one day he and my mom had this conversation.

Mom: Who made this mess?
Cousin: Me
Mom: And who's gonna clean it up?
Cousin: You

We have a lot of funny conversations with him.

hahaha that is soooo cute :p

Oh and Fam means fan...fargy farg....your guess is as good as mine really lol

hahaha I am slowly learning their language. Like Mason as a little tacker would say

Num - for a drink
Nummy num - for food
Nummy nums nummy nums - for his balnkies

lol everything was num and nummy just took a month to work it all out lol :p

Kinda like Morse code. :)

Exactly like morse code....spose you could call it num code :p

When I was little, I called olives, "Baby Dollives." I really don't know where that came from. I also called milk, "Nilky nilk," and guitar, "Tiguitar," and fancy shoes, "Splickety shoes."

Do you have any idea how little kids come up with those weird names?

my eldest son called my mom and dad vava and va.
mom said she didn't mind since she was too young to be a grandma he could call her vava all he wanted.
my grandson called me gamma
my granddaughter calls me mama.

I used to say fidgidator for refrigerator. My friend, a Christian woman, sent her 3 year old son to her room and said: Please go to your room and talk to Jesus about why you are misbehaving. He obediently went.

About 10 minutes later, he popped his head out of his door and quietly said, "Mummy."

She replied, "Yes Caleb."

He answered, "Jesus said Caleb can come out of his room because he won't be bad anymore."

lessa that is so cute. Mine call my mom grammy, they call their father mom nannB and their fathers dad grumpsy gramps. It is cute.

and Justina that is damn adorable lol :p Kids are awesome

When I was little, I called olives, "Baby Dollives." I really don't know where that came from. I also called milk, "Nilky nilk," and guitar, "Tiguitar," and fancy shoes, "Splickety shoes."

Do you have any idea how little kids come up with those weird names?


Hehe I like the word Splickety shoes lol I have lots Splickety Shoes :p sounds funny and I am sure it could create a lot of laughs.

I think it is all due to the way we all hear things though. My son has hearing difficulties so everything is muffled. I guess that is the reason for his speech problems. I think it has a lot to do with the way we speak and the way they hear what we say and the way it registers in the brain.

Don't quote me, I could be wrong.

I think that makes sense Torana. Maybe it is splickety shoes because to him that is the sound they make???

That would make sense actually. Sound has a lot to do with how we perceive things I feel.

Like with my daughter, she is afraid of motorbikes. She wasn't before hand, but after being near one when it was running she became afraid of them. The sound scares her, not the object.

Oh and my father has a beard and moustache, Amity, who is 2. Says ploppy (that is what she calls him. It was a slip of the tongue and it has remained :p) take off you plickles. Grammy...Grammy...Ploppy got plickles on face.

Masons reply to this "I don't want plickles on my face."

(plickles is prickles by the way)

That is great! I really think it is great how they do that... I bet if we had a child write a book based on how they describe things and then translate that book then it would be brilliant... I mean... so far I already know that grandpa has a prickly face just from one small post!

Raymond and I were in the grocery store one day and I was pregnant so Dom wasn't born yet so Raymond was almost 3. I was checking the eggs to make sure none were broken. Raymond pipes up with "you have a cute butt mom" I looked around quickly and there was a young man getting cheese just a few feet away. I said "Raymond you don't talk like that" Raymond said " well Daddy thinks it is really cute too" I looked up just in time to see the guy practically run around the end of the aisle. Don't know if he got his cheese or not.

Hahaha, that is really good!

<laughing>

All this reminds me of a Snickers candy commercial. I think it was aired last year. A father has brought his boss over for dinner, and introduces him to his wife and young son. So the little boy tugs on his father's sleeve, and loudly proclaims, "Daddy, you're wrong. His nose isn't brown at all!"

Announcer voice over: Snickers. Stop the chatter.

(For those who may not know - a Snickers candy bar is a chocolate covered chewy candy bar with peanuts and caramel, so it can keep someone's mouth busy for a couple minutes.)

hahaha that is hilarious lessa.

Mason used to be a right stud. He'd cross his arms, get a sly coy look in his eyes, tilt his head, give a little nod at the good looking girls and say.... "Mmmm num num!"
His uncle Keith loved it lol I used to get so embaressed by it but. He used to get the cutest comments and looks. Even cuddles. It was adorable but shameful at the same time.

and Cogito that advertisement was hilarious. I loved it!

even in english it is funny.

Dom was almost 2 and we were shopping and Santa was in the mall. There was a craft fair going on and he found something he really wanted at one of the booths. He asked if he could have it and I told him he would have to ask Santa. Next thing I hear is a lady running after him hollering that he stole the toy. I caught up to both of them and asked Dom what he was doing with the toy that wasn't paid for. "I was taking it to show Santa what I wanted." Everyone was laughing except the lady who still wanted to get everyone to believe he was a thief. I bought the toy from her and made her feel like a heel. For someone who made toys for children she certainly didn't understand them much.

Mason just came up to me and said "Mommy I have a bloont on my hand and I need a bands ages to make it better cause the spider dragon got hurt and it's Dora's fault now."

I have no idea what he is going on about >< his hand is fine! I gave him his bands ages though lol

Torana that is cute but if it gets to be a regular thing for bands ages to save money use my trick.
Magic bands ages.
you look and see that the bloont is really in need of one.
you reach to the shelf with the magic spray that will clean it really well.
then you get the box of magic bands ages and open it up take out the bands ages
peel it open as you would a regular one. Make a big show of putting it on properly.
then tell Mason that he can't see it but that makes it easier to see when the bloont
is healed.
Saves trips to the store for more bandaids.
Kids seem to go through a phase when everything needs a bandaid.
It was fun seeing Raymond fixing Danny's cuts the same way.

I do that with my two cause they ask for a bands ages <bandaid for their tongues> so we taught them the difference. Blood needs bandaids hurts need bands ages.

And it is even funnier when they think a bandaid will fix broken ornaments, scratches in the car or broken headlights, holes or makrs on the wall, broken toys....the list goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on
the funniest was Mason trying to fix an orchid with a bandaid once. He was terrified grammy would go off at him.

having had 7 kids, my list of 'the darnedest things' would be too long to post... but here's some of the best gems:

fire-dreathing bragon
review mirror
hambadurger

maia, I figured the things from my two would be a long list but 7 would top it by quite a bit.

my kids call bean sprouts snakes. they liked them raw as a snack and kids at school laughed so I told them to take them and call them snakes. I think Raymond still does to this day.

When my brother was little, he would say "Numnum" for food and "Cue Cue" for Thank You. Thats about all he would say, and we'd feed him just for a laugh. I swear, I thought he was going to get fat...

I used to call Yellow "Ellyo", Escalators "Eleskators", and Refrigerator "Frigi-gator".

But nothing I've got can top the things you guys come up with!

Is there a kid alive who didn't at some point pronounce spaghetti as if it were "pasghetti"?

I can't believe my eldest will be ten this year. wow where the hell did the years go.

Raven, my baby just turned 27. I swear it was just last week I carried him out of the hospital.
My eldest is 31. so I agree where did the years go.

Raven, my baby just turned 27. I swear it was just last week I carried him out of the hospital.
My eldest is 31. so I agree where did the years go.

if you wanna feel young, lessa, think of me... my 'baby' of the 7 was 30 last october and my oldest will be 49 next month... rundown is 49, 48, 47, 46, 45, 36, 30!

Well I've four of the little buggers but my eldest is 9 10 later thgis year.

if you wanna feel young, lessa, think of me... my 'baby' of the 7 was 30 last october and my oldest will be 49 next month... rundown is 49, 48, 47, 46, 45, 36, 30!

That's ok, Maia, you're younger than my mom, and she gets around pretty well still - does her own yard work and home repairs, and does wood carvings and oil paintings.

Her oldest child is her only child, and I'll be 55 this Spring.

However, her self-portrait in the attic is starting to really look like crap. ;)

He will kill me for this story but what the heck.
Dom was 4 and we had gone to the pool. Raymond went in with Don and Dom came with me. The ladies were changing into suits and Dom was waiting for me he came over and said rather loudly "mom, you said women don't have beards" that's right Dan. Well those women do down there."
he never came into the ladies change room again.
was my face red and were their faces angry.

Ohhhh that is bad!

My son was a bit older (close to 20), and not so innocent, when he said, "If Joan Rivers has one more face lify, she'll be sporting a goatee!"

I really do prefer beer to go down my throat rather than out through my nose.

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My sides hurt after both of those stories. That is hilarious lessa and Cogito. hahaha :p:p:p:p

I was talking to one of my Chinese students (ages 17-20) at the start of class, part of the lesson. And she said in a very very shy and quiet voice something I didn't quite hear followed by this which I heard very clearly, "Can you satisfy me."
I have a dirty mind, and the way she said it could be taken the wrong way. I burst out laughing.
I then explained how that could be taken very badly and how to say it properly.
She had only wanted to know if we could watch another movie in class.