Out of the mouths of babes...

[grimpixie]

My wife and daughter (13 months) came to have lunch with me today - pixie Jr loves playing with keyboards and mice, so I opened a blank Word document for her to type into, and here are her pearls of wisdom: Dfxjk,kkcm,mkkm ,kxckalaz;;k xdnnjht8 mcf d cnfxddd cvgrrderwdwwwwwws[\y:)

Grim

[twickster]

You must be so proud!

[Mindfield]

Dangit, it's comma-space! Not space-comma or comma-what-space?. And double semicolons are just right out. You gotta teach 'em this stuff early!


Other than that, she's got a promising sense of depth.

[chappachula]

Out of the mouths of babes
umm..shouldn't that be "out of the fingers" of babes......

[Sarahfeena]

Looks to me like she's about ready for the SDMB!

[One And Only Wanderers]

out of the mouths of babes, comes vomit, drool & wailing. At least that's the case with my 4 month old.

[saoirse]

out of the mouths of babes, comes vomit, drool & wailing. At least that's the case with my 4 month old.

I thought it was "great oaks grow."

By the way grimpixie, your daughter's metaphors are hackneyed and her plot structure is all over the place. I did like Dfxjk, though. She was my favorite character.

[mr. jp]

I like that final "wdwwwwwws[\y". Very passionate.

[According to Pliny]

Clearly should go to language school and major in Czech.

[Beware of Doug]

Of COURSE she has trouble writing coherent gibberish.

You shouldn't expect the real thing much before 20 mos. anyway.

:)

[Chez Guevara]

I suspect the provenance of this OP.

Firstly, the sequence begins with an upper case D. Unbelievable. There are people on this board who don't know that a sentence should begin with a capital letter, let alone a 13 month old child.

Secondly, there is only one numeric character in the sequence. How likely is that? All kids like numbers. A 13 month old child would have included more numbers.

I conclude that grimpixie is trying to impress everybody with his own composition skills.

Which are, actually, quite good.

[saoirse]

I suspect the provenance of this OP.

Firstly, the sequence begins with an upper case D. Unbelievable. There are people on this board who don't know that a sentence should begin with a capital letter, let alone a 13 month old child.

Secondly, there is only one numeric character in the sequence. How likely is that? All kids like numbers. A 13 month old child would have included more numbers.

I conclude that grimpixie is trying to impress everybody with his own composition skills.

Which are, actually, quite good.

Well I didn't know that a 13-month-old child should be capitalized.

[Slypork]

Quick! Get that child a job as a presidential speechwriter! Anything is better than, "Stay the course!", "Mission accomplished!" and “Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job.”

[Auntbeast]

My husband tells me that I need to teach our 15 month old to type "hi daddy"

I'll focus on teaching her what knees are first.

Aren't they awesome?

[Dervorin]

I suspect the provenance of this OP.

Firstly, the sequence begins with an upper case D. Unbelievable. There are people on this board who don't know that a sentence should begin with a capital letter, let alone a 13 month old child.

Secondly, there is only one numeric character in the sequence. How likely is that? All kids like numbers. A 13 month old child would have included more numbers.

I conclude that grimpixie is trying to impress everybody with his own composition skills.

Which are, actually, quite good.
I suspect it's more to do with the fact that she's typing in Word, which capitalises the first letter of sentences by default. Elementary, my dear Watson, when you deduce from observation. ;)

[Antigen]

umm..shouldn't that be "out of the fingers" of babes......
Sure, but the fingers just came out of the mouth, anyway. Close enough.

[Little Nemo]

I like that final "wdwwwwwws[\y". Very passionate.
Really? Because I saw that ending coming back at xdnnjht8.

[Shagnasty]

It is a little known fact that small children are fluent in a language, even written form, from the time that they can tap their fingers. They don't "learn" to speak and write in languages such as English so much as they have to unlearn their inborn tongue and then replace it with the tongue of their parents which is a really stupid process if you ask me. If we all just went with what language is natural for our whole lives, things would be much easier and all nations would be unified.

Their language has no direct counterpart in adult languages although it is most closely related to some of the Eastern European languages who harnessed the inborn tongue to transition to the adult tongue. The superficial similarities should be readily apparent.

There aren't any web translators you can use because the concepts are hard to map directly but I am reasonably conversant in the language because I have small children and was once a small child myself.

"Dfxjk,kkcm,mkkm ,kxckalaz;;k xdnnjht8 mcf d cnfxddd cvgrrderwdwwwwwws[\y"

Roughly translates as:

"Pixie Jr say - this world is just so full of wonder, it just makes me want to crap myself."

[ivylass]

Well, I must say, for a child that young to spell kxckalaz;;k correctly certainly bodes well for her future academic prowess.

You must be so proud. :)

[NJ_Kef]

My wife and daughter (13 months) came to have lunch with me today - pixie Jr loves playing with keyboards and mice, so I opened a blank Word document for her to type into, and here are her pearls of wisdom::)The plural of mouse, in this instance, is mouses. Judging by your daughter's superb command of infantile gibberish, she would not have made that mistake. By the way, did you know your child can communicate with birds? I learned about that from reading Mary Poppins.

[outlierrn]

Just think, 699 years, 364 more days till Shakespeare

[WhyNot]

I'll focus on teaching her what knees are first.

Tell me about it! For some reason, "knees", "nose" and "toes" all get the bumpy bit on her face pointed at.

We'll never get into a good preschool at this rate.

I don't think she can even spell "cnfxddd", fer Chrissakes! I've obviously failed as a mother.

[Captain Carrot]

She's evidently fluent in Welsh, especially with all those cs, ds, and ws.

[mobo85]

I used to have a file one of my parrots typed, but got rid of it a couple weeks back. I recall it had a lot of "m"s in it, however.

This PDF file (http://www.vivaria.net/experiments/notes/publication/NOTES_EN.pdf) contains the complete text of a infinite-monkey-Shakespeare experiment conducted by six monkeys sharing the same computer. There is only one intelligible English word in the text- "mass." Despite this achievement, your baby is obviously smarter than six monkeys, as the "Dfxjk" and "kxckalaz" segments alone show much more originality than "sssssssssssssssssaaavala," to say nothing of the brilliant prose that is "cvgrrderwdwwwwwws."

[Elendil's Heir]

Am I the only one who opened this thread, expecting to find out something that Liv Tyler said?

Despite my disappointment, congrats, grimpixie! Looks like you've got a future SDMB moderator on your hands.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Clearly should go to language school and major in Czech.
No.

Welsh.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

She's evidently fluent in Welsh, especially with all those cs, ds, and ws.

DAMMIT! Beat out. :mad: :p