• charles@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    My daughter’s first word was her own name. 5 years later, my son’s first word was… my daughter’s first name.

  • gianni@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    For us there was no first word. Chatty babbling just sort of evolved into speaking. It was a spectrum of development with no clear divisions.

  • MercuryGenisus@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I honestly am not sure. She was talking so much from such a young age. It was all nonsense, complete babble, but sometimes she would say something and I had to stop and think about it. Did she say a word? Is this just a coincidence? Does she understand it? The words just faded in as the nonsense faded out. It seemed like a progression, not an event.

  • Nefara@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    “Up!”

    He’s gotten a lot of mileage out of it. For a while it meant the obvious but also “open”, “apple”, “out” and “outside” until he figured out how to make more consonant sounds.

  • howrar@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Spoken words, none yet. But if you count sign language, it would be “more”, which is used to request food or water.

  • m0darn@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Shoes, but it also kinda sounded like cheese, or sometimes Jesus, which was really weird.

  • Michal@programming.dev
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    “hey” literally as soon as I held him for the first time the day he was born. I know it wasn’t intentional, and probably won’t count but the memory will last forever.